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Author:   Rita Kothari (Professor, Professor, IIT Gandhinagar, India)
Publisher:   OUP India
Imprint:   OUP India
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199478774

ISBN 10:   0199478775
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   18 January 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: When We 'Multilingual', Do We Translate? Part I Translating in Times of Devotion 1: When a Text is a Song - Linda Hess 2: Na Hindu Na Turk: Shared Languages, Accents and Located Meanings- Francesca Orsini 3: Songs on the Move: Mira in Gujarat, Narasinha Mehta in Rajasthan-Neelima Shukla-Bhatt Part II Making and Breaking Boundaries in Colonial India and After 4: Unfixing Multilingualism: India Translated in French Travel Accounts - Sanjukta Banerjee 5: Grierson's Linguistic Survey of India: Acts of Naming and Translating- Rita Kothari 6: Three Languages and a Book: Of Languages and Modernities - Sowmya Dechamma 7: Language as Contestation: Phule's Interventions in Education in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra - Rohini Mokashi-Punekar 8: Representing Kamrupi: Ideologies of Grammar and the Question of Linguistic Boundaries- Madhumita Sengupta 9: Translation and the Indian Social Sciences - Veena Naregal Part III Texts and Practices 10: When India's North-East Is 'Translated' into English - Mitra Phukan 11: On Translating (and-not-translating)Sarasvatichandra - Tridip Suhrud 12: Multilingual Narratives from Western India: Jhaverchand Meghani and the Folk - Krupa Shah 13: Dancing in a Hall of Mirrors: Translation Between Indian Languages- Mini Chandran 14: Translating Belonging in Ahmedabad: Representing Some Malayali Voices- Pooja Thomas Part IV Re-imagining the Time of Translation 15: Conceptual Priority of Translation Over Language - Madhava Chippali and Sundar Sarukkai 16: Changing Script - Ganesh Devy Epilogue: Ficus Benghalensisby Supriya Chaudhuri About the Editor and Contributors

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Rita Kothari is Professor of English, Ashoka University, India. She is a multilingual scholar of translation (theory and practice), language politics, and identity in India. Her ethnographic work is based out of western India, especially Gujarat and Sindhi-speaking parts of Kutch and Rajasthan. She writes especially on local and marginalized communities. One of her acclaimed works is a seminal book on translation studies, Translating India: The Cultural Politics of English.

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