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Author:   Anu Kapur (Delhi School of Economics, India)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge India
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781138350816

ISBN 10:   1138350818
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   26 February 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword 1. Place names 2. Nation’s names 3. Names of the subnational units: States and union territories 4. Sanskritization of place names 5. Persianization of place names 6. Englishization and Anglicization of place names 7. Nationalism and place names 8. Democratization of place names: Parliament debates the names of the states and union territories of India 9. Placenism and future place names Bibliography. Index.

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Anu Kapur is Professor of Geography at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. She is Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, India, and Senior Fellow at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. In 2012 she received the Amartya Sen Award for distinguished social scientists from the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.

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