TY  - GEN
A1  - Abbi, Anvita
A1  - Hasnain, Imtiaz
A1  - Kidwai, Ayesha
T3  - Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
AV  - public
N2  - One important aspect of the socio-political location of Urdu is the culturally accepted relationship of its "sisterhood" with Hindi. Independent India has, however, seen this sisterhood re-interpreted as a  conflation of religious and linguistic identity, by which Urdu in particular has come to be represented as the language of Muslims. In this paper, we present the findings of a field survey in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Mysore, Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, which show that speakers of Urdu resist this identfication, and explicitly characterise both the language as well as their linguistic practices in terms of the shared and syncretic culture of India.
ID  - heidok4906
Y1  - 2004///
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/4906/
TI  - Whose Language is Urdu?
KW  - India 
KW  -  Political Science 
KW  -  Language Politics 
KW  -  Hindi 
KW  -  Hindustani 
KW  -  Urdu
ER  -