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100			_aChatterjee, Kankana _935716
245			_a‘Study Farsi and sell oil’: Colonialism, gender and language in late 19th-century India
260			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
300			_a57(42), Oct, 15, 2022: p.27-29
520			_aFocusing on two texts—Ismat Chughtai’s “Dust of the Caravan” and Ashapurna Devi’s The First Promise (Prothom Protishruti in Bengali)—this article studies the mechanism and consequences of Farsi’s loss of administrative signifi cance, consequent interiorisation and “feminisation”—the shift from a masculine to a feminine accomplishment—in light of the 19th-century discourses of home and abroad. – Reproduced
650			_aFarsi, Colonialism, Gender, Languages, 19th-century India _935717
773			_aEconomic & Political Weekly
906			_aLANGUAGES
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