At the Margins
Discourses of Development, Democracy, and Regionalism in Orissa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23790249 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayanta Sengupta (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-12 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | At the Margins (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198099154.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2488564626 |
| ISBN | 9780198099154 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
In comparison to other linguistic movements in India, Orissa is the single instance of a pan-regional linguistic identity that made a successful negotiation with the colonial state by using constitutional means. Subsequently, like many other linguistic movements that culminated in statehood in postcolonial India, its appeal waxed and waned. It gradually declined in the second half of the twentieth century, as language came to be displaced by issues of development as the prime movers of identity politics. This book addresses these broader questions of poverty, marginality, ethnicity, and identity in Orissa in the twentieth century. The work challenges the idea of 1947 as a watershed and seeks to grapple with the themes of regionalism, language-based ethnicity, centre–state relations, and the interrelationships between development and democracy across this divide.
Anthropological Studies and Insights · History · Multilingual Education and Policy · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |