Language politics under colonialism : caste, class and language pedagogy in western India / Dilip Chavan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chavan, Dilip, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language policy--India--History.

Language policy.

Education and state--India--History.

Education and state.

India--Colonization--Social aspects--History.

India.

India--Colonization--Economic aspects--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (301 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book attempts to capture the reconfiguration of the pre-modern power structure within colonialism, in the specific context of education and linguistic policies implemented by the colonial administration in Western India. The interrelationship existing between caste power, dominance, colonialism and their cultural implications has been a rather ignored subject in postcolonial theory; analysis of the interplay between primordial power structures like caste and colonial modernity has only r...

Contents:

CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE - THEORETICAL PRELIMINARIES; CHAPTER TWO - WARRING LANGUAGES; CHAPTER THREE - LANGUAGE POLITICS; CHAPTER FOUR - THE STANDARDISATION OF MARATHI; CHAPTER FIVE - POLITICS OF PATRONAGE AND INSTITUTIONALISATION OF LANGUAGE HIERARCHY; CHAPTER SIX - CURRICULUM, IDEOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY; CHAPTER SEVEN - CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; GLOSSARY; APPENDIX I; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 29, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6582-6

OCLC:

887508327