The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab
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The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab
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- The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab
- Title remainder
- vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab
- Statement of responsibility
- Farina Mir
- Subject
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- Electronic books
- HISTORY -- Asia -- General
- History
- India
- India -- Punjab
- Intellectual life
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- General
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- India | Punjab -- History -- 19th century
- Literature and society -- India | Punjab -- History -- 20th century
- Panjabi literature
- Panjabi literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
- Panjabi literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century
- Punjab (India) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- TRAVEL -- Special Interest | Literary
- 1800-1999
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- This rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patron
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- Government publication
- government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- South Asia across the disciplines
- Series volume
- 2
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