36.2510, Books: Weaponizing Language: Nagar (2025)

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Subject: 36.2510, Books: Weaponizing Language: Nagar (2025)

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Date: 26-Aug-2025
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: Weaponizing Language: Nagar (2025)


Title: Weaponizing Language
Subtitle: Legislating a Hindu India
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/sociolinguistics/weaponizing-language-legislating-hindu-india?format=HB&isbn=9781009480291

Author(s): Ila Nagar

Hardback ISBN:  9781009480291 Pages:  224 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009480291 Pages:  224 Price: Europe EURO 122.55
Hardback ISBN:  9781009480291 Pages:  224 Price: U.S. $ 140.00

Abstract:

Small linguistic tricks can have big footprints. This book examines
how India's current Hindu nationalist government uses language as a
weapon against its Muslim citizens. Each chapter provides a discursive
history of matters that have been a source of conflict between Hindus
and Muslims in India, highlighting the potent relationship between
language and politics. The book explores four issues, Ramajanmbhoomi
temple, Muslim Personal Law as it pertains to Indian Muslim women,
Kashmir and revocation of Article 370, and Citizenship (Amendment)
Act/National Registry of Citizens, whose histories in courts and
legislative bodies are written in linguistic trickery. Offering novel
ways of understanding why the Hindu right has claimed victories on
these legislative and judicial matters that impact the lives of
minority citizens, it is essential reading for key insights for
academic researchers and students in sociolinguistics, as well as
South Asia studies, gender studies and Indian politics and culture.

Written In: English (eng)



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