Acknowledgements; introduction; chapter one -- theoretical preliminaries; chapter two -- warring languages; chapter three -- language politics; chapter four -- the standardisation of marathi; chapter five -- politics of patronage and institutionalisation of language hierarchy; chapter six -- curriculum, ideology and pedagogy; chapter seven -- conclusion; bibliography; glossary; appendix i; index.
Summary
This book attempts to capture the reconfiguration of the pre-modern power structure within colonialism, in the specific context of education and linguistic policies implemented by the colonial administration in Western India. The interrelationship existing between caste power, dominance, colonialism and their cultural implications has been a rather ignored subject in postcolonial theory; analysis of the interplay between primordial power structures like caste and colonial modernity has only r ...
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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