Philip Jagessar
Biographic Data
| ID | 330561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Jagessar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Jagessar |
| SIGNATURE | JAGESSAR P |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4925-7056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library, London, 24 October 2025 – 18 January 2026
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Grierson’s incomplete map and the limits of Indo-European cartography
This article examines George Grierson’s unfinished Indo-European migrations map, unusually published in a largely incomplete state in his monumental Linguistic Survey of India (1903–1928). This article makes the case that the LSI’s unfinished map was indicative of three quandaries which impacted how IE history was represented on maps with wider repercussions for the theoretical and applied geographies of the Indo-European languages. The first was…
Digital Materiality and Doing Map History
Mapping Language
Maps have long been understood as texts, encumbered with internal and socio‐contextual meanings and evoking different ways of interpreting, representing or writing space. However, the abstraction of mapping as language can obscure the important role of maps in identifying and organising languages, rendering names and scripts and (in)visibilising minority speakers. In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on m…
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36
In their petition to Edwin Montagu in 1917, the Utkal Sammilani, a pan-Oriya forum, used the Linguistic Survey’s map of Oriya to represent a political and territorial claim to a majoritarian linguistic province. However, for George Grierson, administrator of the Survey, language maps only showed an approximate geography and could not be used to draw boundaries. This article argues that Grierson’s map set off a series of contested cartographic exe…
Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928
This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that corresponded with a multiethnic and multinational network of officials and scholars to survey India's languages. It makes the case that the networked practice of surveying was reciprocated at different scales, from local…
The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), supervised by the Anglo-Irish linguist and civil servant George A. Grierson, surveyed and classified more than seven hundred languages and dialects. An integral part of the state-funded survey was mapping where languages were spoken in India, which resulted in the publication of 45 language maps between 1899 and 1927. As individual maps they are comparable to other thematic maps of the period. As a series of …
Language in Space
Language in Space: The Cartographic Representation of Dialects, by Monika Wegmann." Imago Mundi, 72(2), pp. 205–206
Geography and linguistics
Linguistic geography has been considered a part, if not a sub-discipline, of linguistics rather than geography. This was not always the case. In the late 19th century geography was integral to linguistic science through the practice of language surveying and production of linguistic maps and atlases. By the early 20th century language became a geopolitical concern in Europe during and after the First World War. This paper argues that historical g…
Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928
This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that corresponded with a multiethnic and multinational network of officials and scholars to survey India's languages. It makes the case that the networked practice of surveying was reciprocated at different scales, from local…
Geography and linguistics
Linguistic geography has been considered a part, if not a sub-discipline, of linguistics rather than geography. This was not always the case. In the late 19th century geography was integral to linguistic science through the practice of language surveying and production of linguistic maps and atlases. By the early 20th century language became a geopolitical concern in Europe during and after the First World War. This paper argues that historical g…
Mapping Language
Maps have long been understood as texts, encumbered with internal and socio‐contextual meanings and evoking different ways of interpreting, representing or writing space. However, the abstraction of mapping as language can obscure the important role of maps in identifying and organising languages, rendering names and scripts and (in)visibilising minority speakers. In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on m…
The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), supervised by the Anglo-Irish linguist and civil servant George A. Grierson, surveyed and classified more than seven hundred languages and dialects. An integral part of the state-funded survey was mapping where languages were spoken in India, which resulted in the publication of 45 language maps between 1899 and 1927. As individual maps they are comparable to other thematic maps of the period. As a series of …
Language in Space
Language in Space: The Cartographic Representation of Dialects, by Monika Wegmann." Imago Mundi, 72(2), pp. 205–206
Geography and linguistics
Linguistic geography has been considered a part, if not a sub-discipline, of linguistics rather than geography. This was not always the case. In the late 19th century geography was integral to linguistic science through the practice of language surveying and production of linguistic maps and atlases. By the early 20th century language became a geopolitical concern in Europe during and after the First World War. This paper argues that historical g…
The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), supervised by the Anglo-Irish linguist and civil servant George A. Grierson, surveyed and classified more than seven hundred languages and dialects. An integral part of the state-funded survey was mapping where languages were spoken in India, which resulted in the publication of 45 language maps between 1899 and 1927. As individual maps they are comparable to other thematic maps of the period. As a series of …
Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928
This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that corresponded with a multiethnic and multinational network of officials and scholars to survey India's languages. It makes the case that the networked practice of surveying was reciprocated at different scales, from local…
Provincialising Global Oncology
Global Oncology is an important project and concept which has made significant strides in recent years
Grierson’s incomplete map and the limits of Indo-European cartography
This article examines George Grierson’s unfinished Indo-European migrations map, unusually published in a largely incomplete state in his monumental Linguistic Survey of India (1903–1928). This article makes the case that the LSI’s unfinished map was indicative of three quandaries which impacted how IE history was represented on maps with wider repercussions for the theoretical and applied geographies of the Indo-European languages. The first was…
Digital Materiality and Doing Map History
Mapping Language
Maps have long been understood as texts, encumbered with internal and socio‐contextual meanings and evoking different ways of interpreting, representing or writing space. However, the abstraction of mapping as language can obscure the important role of maps in identifying and organising languages, rendering names and scripts and (in)visibilising minority speakers. In this conversational piece, we reflect on our experience of working with and on m…
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36
In their petition to Edwin Montagu in 1917, the Utkal Sammilani, a pan-Oriya forum, used the Linguistic Survey’s map of Oriya to represent a political and territorial claim to a majoritarian linguistic province. However, for George Grierson, administrator of the Survey, language maps only showed an approximate geography and could not be used to draw boundaries. This article argues that Grierson’s map set off a series of contested cartographic exe…
Secret Maps exhibition at the British Library, London, 24 October 2025 – 18 January 2026
Geography (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Cartography (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (3 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Toponymy (3 works)