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100			_aSingh, Atul Kumar and Dwivedi, Prabha Shankar _949950
245			_aIdeologies of masculinity and femininity in the projection of the ‘national language’: Gendered discourse of Hindi–Urdu dichotomization and standardization
260			_aJournal of Human Values
300			_a29(3), Sep, 2023: p.274-284
520			_aThis article takes the linguistic space of North India during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and tries to see how a nationalistic linguistic ideology that was shaping up at that time, creating Hindi and Urdu linguistic communities, used gender as a tool to portray and assert a masculinist vision of language and nation. It involved not just censoring certain representations of women and their cultural spaces, but also using the issue of ‘vulgar’ representations as a premise to marginalize certain languages and their literature. The article looks at the colonial ideology that worked as an enforcer for the nationalists to work towards achieving what they felt as a sanitized and moral form of literature and culture. The linguistic ideology that accompanied these revisions was of projecting Hindi (Khari Boli) as a national language while limiting spaces of other languages, such as Braj, Urdu and Bhojpuri, in the region, by criticizing either their use of sexual imagery or by stereotyping them in a gendered way. This article investigates the arguments of nationalist writers and highlights their masculinist and patriarchal ideas in their bid for the new national language. – Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09716858221148805
773			_aJournal of Human Values
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