LEADER 03671nam 2200745 450 001 996247974703316 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-77178-7 010 $a9786612771781 010 $a0-520-94764-9 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520947641 035 $a(CKB)2670000000046920 035 $a(EBL)582034 035 $a(OCoLC)669495772 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000428386 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11316431 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000428386 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10414145 035 $a(PQKB)11304296 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC582034 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse31085 035 $a(DE-B1597)520255 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520947641 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL582034 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11047690 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL277178 035 $a(dli)HEB31436 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012918300 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000046920 100 $a20091211h20102010 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social space of language $evernacular culture in British colonial Punjab /$fFarina Mir 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2010] 210 4$dİ2010 215 $a1 online resource (294 p.) 225 1 $aSouth Asia across the disciplines ;$v2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26269-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Forging a language policy -- Punjabi print culture -- A Punjabi literary formation -- Place and personhood -- Piety and devotion -- Conclusion. 330 $aThis rich cultural history set in Punjab examines a little-studied body of popular literature to illustrate both the durability of a vernacular literary tradition and the limits of colonial dominance in British India. Farina Mir asks how qisse, a vibrant genre of epics and romances, flourished in colonial Punjab despite British efforts to marginalize the Punjabi language. She explores topics including Punjabi linguistic practices, print and performance, and the symbolic content of qisse. She finds that although the British denied Punjabi language and literature almost all forms of state patronage, the resilience of this popular genre came from its old but dynamic corpus of stories, their representations of place, and the moral sensibility that suffused them. Her multidisciplinary study reframes inquiry into cultural formations in late-colonial north India away from a focus on religious communal identities and nationalist politics and toward a widespread, ecumenical, and place-centered poetics of belonging in the region. 410 0$aSouth Asia across the disciplines. 606 $aPanjabi literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPanjabi literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLiterature and society$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aLiterature and society$zIndia$zPunjab$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aPunjab (India)$xIntellectual life$y19th century 607 $aPunjab (India)$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aPanjabi literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPanjabi literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 615 0$aLiterature and society$xHistory 676 $a891.4/209355 700 $aMir$b Farina$01019989 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247974703316 996 $aThe social space of language$92408286 997 $aUNISA