G.J.V. Prasad, ed. India in Translation, Translation in India

Autor: Cécile Girardin
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Commonwealth Essays and Studies. 42
ISSN: 2534-6695
2270-0633
DOI: 10.4000/ces.1627
Popis: G.J.V. Prasad introduces his new volume by playfully listing the various names used to refer to India, initially derived from the river Sindhu, later called Indus by foreigners, while other names, like Bharat and Hindustan, still persist in everyday speech. He points at the very flexible, and at times contradictory use of the lexicon, with the word Hindustan belonging both to Muslim rule during the Mughal period and to Hindu extreme-right discourse in more recent history. Multilingual India,...
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