Title The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / Farina Mir.

Publication Info.	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
	©2010

Online access
Online eBook. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
Instructions for reading/downloading this eBook

Item Status

Description	1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	South Asia across the disciplines ; 2
	South Asia across the disciplines.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.
Summary	This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patron.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Panjabi literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	Panjabi literature.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Panjabi literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Literature and society -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 19th century.
	Literature and society.
	India -- Punjab.
	History.
	Literature and society -- India -- Punjab -- History -- 20th century.
	Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Chronological Term	1800-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Criticism, interpretation, etc.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Mir, Farina. Social space of language. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 9780520262690 (DLC) 2009049413 (OCoLC)488731894
ISBN	9780520947641 electronic book
	0520947649 electronic book
	9780520262690
	0520262697
Standard No.	9786612771781

Title The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / Farina Mir.

Item Status

Library Links

Search Tools