Language, Memory and Remembering: Explorations in Historical Sociolinguistics

by Vaidehi Ramanathan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815358873
• ISBN13: 9780815358879
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Routledge India
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"