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UNISA996385061003316 |
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Learned divine |
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The Church of Rome unmask'd, or her false principles briefly detected [[electronic resource] ] : with some reasons of so many retaining or returning to communion with her, and the great danger of everlasting destruction, that such persons, especially after separations from her, return to her communion, do run themselves on / / written by a learned divine, by way of letter to a friend in the country |
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London, : Printed for Isaac Cleave, 1679 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Reproduction of original in Huntington Library. |
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UNINA9910785240703321 |
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Mir Farina |
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The social space of language : vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab / / Farina Mir |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-282-77178-7 |
9786612771781 |
0-520-94764-9 |
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1 online resource (294 p.) |
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South Asia across the disciplines ; ; 2 |
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Panjabi literature - 19th century - History and criticism |
Panjabi literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 19th century |
Literature and society - India - Punjab - History - 20th century |
Punjab (India) Intellectual life 19th century |
Punjab (India) Intellectual life 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion. |
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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 patronage, the resilience of this popular genre came from its old but dynamic corpus of stories, their representations of place, and the moral sensibility that suffused them. Her |
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multidisciplinary study reframes inquiry into cultural formations in late-colonial north India away from a focus on religious communal identities and nationalist politics and toward a widespread, ecumenical, and place-centered poetics of belonging in the region. |
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