Publications

Publication details [#48554]

Ahmad, Rizwan. 2008. Scripting a new identity: The battle for Devanagari in nineteenth century India. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (7) : 1163–1183.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discursive practice | identity negotiation | ideology | language and culture

Language as a subject

Hindi | Urdu

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines the discursive construction of Hindu and Muslim identity in late nineteenth century North India, through language ideological debates.