The Making of Persianate Modernity
The Making of Persianate Modernity

Author: Alexander Jabbari

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-04-30

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1009320866

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Traces the emergence of literary history, showing how Iranians and South Asians drew from their shared heritage to produce a 'Persianate modernity'.

Language Policy and Education in India
Language Policy and Education in India

Author: M. Sridhar

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-08-05

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1134878311

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This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching. Drawing on a variety of archival sources — policy documents, books, periodicals — this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.

Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj
Gandhi and the Idea of Swaraj

Author: Ramin Jahanbegloo

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-03-07

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 1000842665

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This book examines Gandhi's idea of swaraj as an alternative to the modern concept of political authority. It also introduces the readers to Gandhi’s ideas of moral interconnectedness and empathetic pluralism. It explores the Gandhian belief that "nonviolence" as a moral and political concept is essentially the empowerment of the Other through spiritual and political realization of the self as a non-egocentric subject. Further, it highlights swaraj as an act of conscience and therefore a transformative force, essential to the harmony between spirituality and politics. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, politics, and South Asian studies.