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Objective: This article, therefore, aims to fill this gap. It traces out how British language-teaching policies helped spread the use of Urdu in northern India and parts of present-day Pakistan. Since our focus is on institutional policies, especially language-teaching policies, the informal networks through which Urdu spread have been ignored.
Many scholars, politicians, and the lay people alike believe that Urdu in North India symbolizes a Muslim identity and culture. Based on an eight-month long ethnographic study and quantitative language data collected in Old Delhi, this article.
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3 lip 2014 · Based on an eight-month long ethnographic study and quantitative language data collected in Old Delhi, this article challenges this notion and shows that the symbolic meanings of Urdu have been mutating in post-colonial India.
Muslim and Hindu identities and analyzes the changes in the perception of Urdu in both Pakistan and North India. It ends by examining the religious functions of the other languages (vernaculars and English) of Pakistan. The Association of Urdu with Islam in Pre-Partition India
North India, also called Northern India, is a geographical and broad cultural region comprising the northern part of India (or historically, the Indian subcontinent) wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population.
The Hindi Belt, also known as the Hindi Heartland or the Hindi speaking states, is a linguistic region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India where various Northern, Central, Eastern and Western Indo-Aryan languages are spoken, which in a broader sense is termed as Hindi languages, with Standard Hindi (based on ...
