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Language, Memory and Remembering: Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

Language, Memory and Remembering: Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

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ISBN10: 0367733366
ISBN13: 9780367733360
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Dec 18 2020
Pages: 110
Language: English

This volume explores issues of memory, remembering and language in late colonial India. It is the first systematic historical sociolinguistic study of English private and public citizens who lived in and/or worked for India and the Indian cause from the 1920s to the 1940s. While some of the English have lived as common citizens and were committed to India, their voices and contributions have remained on the margins of Indian collective memory. This book offers microhistorical readings of extended language forms generally underexplored in sociolinguistics (such as letters, telegrams, missives, and oral histories) to reorient facets of individual memories, lives, and endeavours against larger officialised understandings of the past.

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