32.1474, Books: Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Choksi

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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 21:53:28
From: Khadija Ahmed [khadija.ahmed at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Choksi

 


Title: Graphic Politics in Eastern India 
Subtitle: Script and the Quest for Autonomy 
Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (formerly The Continuum International Publishing Group)
	   http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
	

Book URL: https://www.bloomsbury.com/graphic-politics-in-eastern-india-9781350159587/ 


Author: Nishaant Choksi

Electronic: ISBN:  9781350159600 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 76.50
Electronic: ISBN:  9781350159594 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 76.50
Hardback: ISBN:  9781350159587 Pages: 224 Price: U.K. £ 85.00


Abstract:

Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in
eastern India, this book examines the overlooked role of script in regional
movements for autonomy to provide one of the first comprehensive theoretical
and ethnographical accounts of 'graphic politics'.

Based on extensive fieldwork in the villages of southwestern West Bengal,
Nishaant Choksi explores the deployment of Santali scripts, including a newly
created script called "Ol Chiki", in Bengali-dominated local markets, the
education system and in the circulation of print media. He shows how
manipulating the linguistic landscape and challenging the idea of a vernacular
enables Santali speakers to delineate their own political domains and scale
their language on local, regional and national levels. In doing so, they
contest Bengali-speaking upper castes' hegemony over public spaces and
institutions, as well as the administrative demarcations of the contemporary
Indian nation-state.

Combining semiotic theory with ethnographically grounded investigation,
"Graphic Politics in Eastern India" offers a new framework for understanding
writing and literacy practices among ethnic minorities and points to future
directions for interdisciplinary research on indigenous autonomy in South
Asia.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Santali (sat)


Written In: English  (eng)

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