03671nam 2200745 450 99624797470331620200520144314.01-282-77178-797866127717810-520-94764-910.1525/9780520947641(CKB)2670000000046920(EBL)582034(OCoLC)669495772(SSID)ssj0000428386(PQKBManifestationID)11316431(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428386(PQKBWorkID)10414145(PQKB)11304296(MiAaPQ)EBC582034(MdBmJHUP)muse31085(DE-B1597)520255(DE-B1597)9780520947641(Au-PeEL)EBL582034(CaPaEBR)ebr11047690(CaONFJC)MIL277178(dli)HEB31436(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918300(EXLCZ)99267000000004692020091211h20102010 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe social space of language vernacular culture in British colonial Punjab /Farina MirBerkeley :University of California Press,[2010]©20101 online resource (294 p.)South Asia across the disciplines ;2Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26269-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion.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 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.South Asia across the disciplines.Panjabi literature19th centuryHistory and criticismPanjabi literature20th centuryHistory and criticismLiterature and societyIndiaPunjabHistory19th centuryLiterature and societyIndiaPunjabHistory20th centuryPunjab (India)Intellectual life19th centuryPunjab (India)Intellectual life20th centuryPanjabi literatureHistory and criticism.Panjabi literatureHistory and criticism.Literature and societyHistoryLiterature and societyHistory891.4/209355Mir Farina1019989MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996247974703316The social space of language2408286UNISA