Suchergebnisse

Tribal folklore and oral tradition / Mahendra Kumar Mishra -- Oral literature of the Kondhs : certain aspects / B. Ramakrishna Reddy -- The world of the Birhor : continuity, change and loss / S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Farooq Ahmad Mir and Sangita Sarkar -- Orality and civility : explorations from an Adivasi perspective / Pradip Prabhu -- What shall we do with our 'unwritten endangered' languages? / Ramakant Agnihotri / A Bhuta named Babana / B.N. Patnaik -- Manifesto of the unwritten world : the curse of dialects / Udaya Narayana Singh -- Issues and challenges in the search of effective orthography for unwritten languages of North-East India / Umarani Pappuswamy -- Challenges of scripting Raji : an endangered language / Kavita Rastogi -- Bhili Bhasha ke Anuvad men Badha aur Bandhan (in Hindi) / Vasant Nirgune -- Least written languages of Manipur / Ch. Yashawanta Singh

One important aspect of the socio-political location of Urdu is the culturally accepted relationship of its "sisterhood" with Hindi. Independent India has, however, seen this sisterhood re-interpreted as a conflation of religious and linguistic identity, by which Urdu in particular has come to be represented as the language of Muslims. In this paper, we present the findings of a field survey in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Mysore, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, which show that speakers of Urdu resist this identfication, and explicitly characterise both the language as well as their linguistic practices in terms of the shared and syncretic culture of India.

One important aspect of the socio-political location of Urdu is the culturally accepted relationship of its "sisterhood" with Hindi. Independent India has, however, seen this sisterhood re-interpreted as a conflation of religious and linguistic identity, by which Urdu in particular has come to be represented as the language of Muslims. In this paper, we present the findings of a field survey in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Mysore, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, which show that speakers of Urdu resist this identfication, and explicitly characterise both the language as well as their linguistic practices in terms of the shared and syncretic culture of India.