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Author : C. M. Naim
Release : 2004
Genre : Urdu literature
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Book Rating : 756/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Urdu Texts and Contexts by : C. M. Naim
Download or read book Urdu Texts and Contexts written by C. M. Naim. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiefly on Urdu poetry.
Author : Jeffrey R. Timm
Release : 1992-01-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 967/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Texts in Context by : Jeffrey R. Timm
Download or read book Texts in Context written by Jeffrey R. Timm. This book was released on 1992-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major religious traditions of South Asia are religions of the book. All accept basic arrays of texts of scriptures, often seen as sacred reservoirs of meaning and power. The West has viewed these texts as bibles of their respective traditions, projecting onto them Western values and concerns. This book challenges such misconceptions by revealing the complex character of scripture and its interpretation in South Asian religions. Texts in Context explores the hermeneutical traditions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Islam, and Sikhism. The question of how we should understand the diversity of text-traditions is approached by asking How have traditional thinkers the exegetes within these traditions understood and utilized scripture? The answers, though remarkably diverse, do reveal important similarities and take the discussion of scripture in India to a deeper level. This book makes accessible to the non-specialist sensibilities and approaches that have previously received little attention in the West, but have formed the basis for traditional efforts to understand and utilize scripture. It is a collaboration between contemporary thinkers and their traditional counterparts, whose voices emerge as they consider the sacred words of the religious traditions of South Asia.
Author : Ali Sultaan Asani
Release : 2008-01-01
Genre : Foreign Language Study
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Book Rating : 605/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Let's Study Urdu by : Ali Sultaan Asani
Download or read book Let's Study Urdu written by Ali Sultaan Asani. This book was released on 2008-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the Urdu language offers lessons on grammar, vocabulary, and the letters of the Urdu alphabet and how they are used in words and sentences.
Author : Rajesh Kumar
Release : 2019-04-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 956/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Text, Context and Construction of Identity by : Rajesh Kumar
Download or read book Text, Context and Construction of Identity written by Rajesh Kumar. This book was released on 2019-04-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language is central to our existence and it happens to be the most sophisticated product of the human mind. It is inconceivable to think of ourselves, our societies, our ideas, cultures or identities without language. It is the primary means of socialization, and whatever we know is a result of it. It is the primary medium of construction and dissemination of knowledge, and structures our thought processes in important ways that constitute our identity. In very complex ways, it interacts with the social, political and economic power structures that remain significant in defining the identities of individuals and societies. The essays in this volume create an awareness and understanding about the role of linguistic context in negotiating identity. The book explains identity and the complex relations between language and several aspects of our society. It explores identity through text and context, and will serve to trigger a novel discourse around the centrality of identity in contemporary society.
Author : Walter N. Hakala
Release : 2016-08-30
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Negotiating Languages by : Walter N. Hakala
Download or read book Negotiating Languages written by Walter N. Hakala. This book was released on 2016-08-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prior to the nineteenth century, South Asian dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies reflected a hierarchical vision of nature and human society. By the turn of the twentieth century, the modern dictionary had democratized and politicized language. Compiled "scientifically" through "historical principles," the modern dictionary became a concrete symbol of a nation's arrival on the world stage. Following this phenomenon from the late seventeenth century to the present, Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers—Urdu and Hindi—and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals. Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
