"In the National Anthem, India is portrayed as a collection of images, some geographical and some linguistic. Written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, this poem staked out linguistic regions long before they were officially formed. By juxtaposing language based regions like Punja…
"In the National Anthem, India is portrayed as a collection of images, some geographical and some linguistic. Written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, this poem staked out linguistic regions long before they were officially formed. By juxtaposing language based regions like Punja…
Introduction: Nation in the vernacular -- How the Vernacular Became Regional -- Vernacular Publics: A modern Odia readership imagined -- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement -- The Odia Political Subject and the Rise of the Odia Movement -- Odisha as Vern…
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupt…
Through an examination of the creation of the first linguistically organized province in India, Odisha, Pritipuspa Mishra explores the ways regional languages came to serve as the most acceptable registers of difference in post-colonial India. She argues that rather than disrupt…
"In the National Anthem, India is portrayed as a collection of images, some geographical and some linguistic. Written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, this poem staked out linguistic regions long before they were officially formed. By juxtaposing language based regions like Punja…
"In the National Anthem, India is portrayed as a collection of images, some geographical and some linguistic. Written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1911, this poem staked out linguistic regions long before they were officially formed. By juxtaposing language based regions like Punja…
On the transportation, public works initiatives and economic changes of the period in Orissa, India; a study.
On the transportation, public works initiatives and economic changes of the period in Orissa, India; a study.
Exploring the practice of flood control, this work argues that this is a part of a political agenda, implicated in the calculations of capitalism. It also argues for a reconsideration of the debate on the colonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy and questions conte…
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
The volume explores the idea and practice of flood control and argues that this is a part of a political agenda, deeply implicated in the social, economic, and political calculations of capitalism in general and colonialism in particular. It argues for a comprehensive reconsider…
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.