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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: making of modern Hindi
    sub title: literary authority in colonial north India
  name:
    name part: Mody, Sujata S.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ii
    date issued: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 293 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Making of Modern Hindi examines the politics and processes of making Hindi modern at a formative moment in India's history, when British imperialism was at its peak, and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. It centers the figure of Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi (1864-1938), an enterprising and contentious Hindi litterateur, and his project of constructing Hindi as a national language with a modern literature in the early twentieth century. Dwivedi's unprecedented multi-media literary campaign as long-time editor of the Hindi journal Sarasvati paved the way for Hindi's progress into the modern era. This study casts new light on Dwivedi as an innovative and dynamic arbiter of literary modernity. He advanced his agenda by exploring the collaborative potential of art and literature, a critical element in national language and literary reform that has received little attention in other studies. This book also considers tensions between the editor and others in his realm of influence. His project sparked contest among a range of authorities who participated alongside Dwivedi in constructing Hindi modernity. Despite a common enthusiasm for Hindi, they challenged some aspects of his agenda, based on their differing agendas and perspectives. Dwivedi's responses to their challenges were pragmatic and strategically varied.
  note: Sujata S. Mody.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [270]-283) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-ii---
  subject:
    topic: Hindi literature
    geographic: India, North
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Hindi literature
    temporal: 19th century
    topic: History and criticism
  classification: 891.4309
  identifier: 9780199489091
  identifier: 0199489092
  identifier: 9780199093915
  identifier: 0199093911
  identifier: 2018320484
  record info:
    record content source: DKAGE
    record creation date: 181113
    record change date: 20190425154611.0
    record identifier: in00004074039