The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920) (Record no. 524760)
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| Personal name | Poddar, Sanjukta |
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| Title | The decline of multilingualism in a divided public sphere: The Indian press and cultural politics in colonial Allahabad (1890–1920) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Extent | 57(6), Nov, 2023: p.1798-1828 |
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| Summary, etc | This article draws attention to the provincial city of Allahabad at the turn of the century as the site of a prolific and multilingual print culture. While publishing trends in this city were shaped by the intertwined histories of political culture and cultural politics, specific journals responded to these forces in ways that remain unexamined. Taking the Indian Press—established in 1884 and arguably the city’s most important multilingual publishing house—and four prominent journals that it produced (Saraswatī, Prabāsī, The Modern Review, and Adīb) as case study, I analyse the entanglements between print culture and debates on the contentious issues of languages and identities in a divided public sphere. Based on an extensive analysis of several decades of publishing trends for Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, and English, I argue that the continued thriving of many languages, or multilingualism, cannot be read simply as evidence for the proliferation of syncretism in the early decades of the twentieth century. Through a detailed reading of this complex field of cultural production, I show that while multilingual publishing thrived, cultural discourse led by middle-class and elite intellectuals was increasingly becoming homogeneous and insular, pushing a milieu of multilingual readers and publishers towards a narrow nationalist and majoritarian ideal. Thus, upon close analysis, multilingualism as a cultural value in the era of colonial modernity mirrored the fractures within the public sphere. – Reproduced https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/decline-of-multilingualism-in-a-divided-public-sphere-the-indian-press-and-cultural-politics-in-colonial-allahabad-18901920/3CA709F6A0B6720460FC26A100E4644A |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Prayagraj, Allahabad |
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| Main entry heading | Modern Asian Studies |
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| Subject DIP | HISTORY |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-01-16 | 57(6), Nov, 2023: p.1798-1828 | AR130566 | 2024-01-16 | Articles |