Desire and Defiance: A Study of Bengali Women in Love, 1850–1930. By Aparna Bandyopadhyay. Orient BlackSwan. 2016. xvi + 303pp. Rs.1095.00/$54.00.

Kumar, Saurav

doi:10.1111/1468-229x.12661

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“…The former ultimately, through a purging of words of Perso-Arabic origin, became Hindi. The later, through a symmetrical purging of words of Sanskrit origin, became Urdu (Orsini, 2004;Rai, 2001;Stark, 2009).…”

Section: Cleaving Urdu and Hindimentioning

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Recovering Knowledge Commons for the Global South

Ghosh

2024

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The colonial encounter instituted the hegemony of documentary practices over oral, performative and manuscript practices. Only knowledge validated through the process of print publication could stand the test of legal scrutiny. On the one hand the Western epistemological quest glossed over ideas that existed through ephemera, on the other hand that knowledge which Western print practices imbibed from non-European traditions were henceforth, locked behind intellectual property regimes and restrictive archival practices. This tremendously skewed access to knowledge between the North and the South. Tools for digital transformation, particularly those that are based on artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), can be culture specific eg. training data for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)/ Hand-written Text Recognition (HTR); datasets for natural language processing. In the absence of culture specific tools in underdeveloped societies Anglo-American interpretive categories and assumptions become the default. Further, Anglo-American institutions work to use their advantage in the balance of knowledge distribution to maintain their hegemonic position. In order to protect the South's access to human heritage and knowledge we need to develop technologies that leverage the potentials of digital communication for increased conversations among languages of the South.

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Section: Cleaving Urdu and Hindimentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ghosh

2024

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“…For Hindu scholars, the sensuous woman represented an ‘anomaly’ that needed to be kept out by silencing the discourse of her sensuality and rejecting her fiercely as an element of westernization or a result of Muslim degeneration (Gupta, 2000, p. 93; Orsini, 2002, pp. 185–190; Rai, 2018, pp. 71–73; Sarkar, 2005, pp.…”

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Ideologies of Masculinity and Femininity in the Projection of the ‘National Language’: Gendered Discourse of Hindi–Urdu Dichotomization and Standardization

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Dwivedi

2023

Journal of Human Values

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This 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.

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Desire and Defiance: A Study of Bengali Women in Love, 1850–1930. By Aparna Bandyopadhyay. Orient BlackSwan. 2016. xvi + 303pp. Rs.1095.00/$54.00.

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Ideologies of Masculinity and Femininity in the Projection of the ‘National Language’: Gendered Discourse of Hindi–Urdu Dichotomization and Standardization

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