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Vernacular Imperialism, Vedic Nationalism: Listening for Disparate Accents in the Linguistic Survey of India

Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India. By Javed Majeed. London: Routledge, 2018. 266 pages. ISBN 9781138320086. £115 (hbk).Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India. By Javed Majeed. New Delhi: Routledge, 2018. 230 pages. ISBN 9781138556706. £115 (hbk).

 

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1 Butler Library, Columbia University, MS#0988 (Norman Mosley Penzer papers): Box 1, Sir George Grierson to Penzer, 15 February 1928.

2 Bengali–Assamese tension is still very much animating politics in present-day Assam, though now the contested categories are those of citizenship and domicilement. See Indian Express, 26 April 2019.

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