Language politics, elites, and the public sphere/
Veena Naregal.
- Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2014.
- xi, 300 p. ; 22 cm.
1. Textual Hierarchies, Literate Audiences and Structures of Patronage: Language and Power in Pre-colonial Western India -- 2. Colonial Education and the Laicisation of Knowledge: Re-making Cultural Hierarchies and Modes of Contestation -- 3. Colonial Education and the Cultivation of English and Marathi: Hierarchies of Language and the Emerging Political Structure -- 4. Colonial Power, Print and the Re-making of the Literate Sphere -- 5. Bilingualism, Hegemony and the 'Swing to Orthodoxy': The Shaping of the Political Sphere (1860-1881) -- Conclusion: The Limits of Upper-caste Leadership.
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English language--Social aspects English language English language--Political aspects British Occupation of India (1765-1947)