Linguistic minorities and strategic mobilisation in eastern India: Bengali-Biharis during the ERA of linguistic territorialism (1935–57) (Record no. 525195)
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| Personal name | Bhattacharya, Medha |
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| Title | Linguistic minorities and strategic mobilisation in eastern India: Bengali-Biharis during the ERA of linguistic territorialism (1935–57) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | The Indian Economic and Social History Review |
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| Extent | 60(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.275-300 |
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| Summary, etc | This article analyses how linguistic minorities in the province of Bihar navigated the era of linguistic territorialism, when mainstream political organisations and figures within India largely agreed that specific linguistic communities ‘belonged’ in particular regions. Indian scholarship has tended to focus on the mechanisms that brought about the linguistic reorganisation of states in India, therefore, concentrating largely on the ways in which territory and language became intrinsically connected. This article will examine the link of language and belonging with regard to a ‘community’, which demanded that states remain linguistically and culturally heterogenous. It focuses on the section of Biharis that identified Bengali as their ‘mother-tongue’ and tracks the transformation of Bengali politics within the province/state during the transition from colonial rule to independence. It explores the ways in which narratives of historical Bengali settlement were deployed for different reasons across this period, and argues that Bengalis in Bihar conceptualised the ordering of the Indian nation in a way that was inherently different from mainstream understandings of how the country should be ordered during this period. Bengali-Bihari figures and publications deployed rhetoric that attached much greater value to territorial belonging than to linguistic or cultural belonging. This article demonstrates that contrary to common assumptions, there were large groups of people who conceptualised India not just as a linguistically heterogenous nation, but one that consisted of linguistically heterogenous states that protected minority linguistic communities. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00194646231183347 |
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| Main entry heading | The Indian Economic and Social History Review |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-02-14 | 60(3), Jul-Sep, 2023: p.275-300 | AR131031 | 2024-02-14 | Articles |