eprintid: 4906
rev_number: 42
eprint_status: archive
userid: 1
dir: disk0/00/00/49/06
datestamp: 2004-09-27 13:55:55
lastmod: 2016-01-09 12:46:14
status_changed: 2012-08-14 15:13:00
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Abbi, Anvita
creators_name: Hasnain, Imtiaz
creators_name: Kidwai, Ayesha
title: Whose Language is Urdu?
ispublished: pub
subjects: ddc-320
divisions: i-702000
divisions: i-999904
keywords: India , Political Science , Language Politics , Hindi , Hindustani , Urdu
cterms_swd: Indien
cterms_swd: Politische Wissenschaft
cterms_swd: Sprachpolitik
cterms_swd: Hindi
cterms_swd: Hindustani
cterms_swd: Urdu
abstract: 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.
abstract_translated_lang: eng
date: 2004
date_type: published
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00004906
portal_cluster_id: p-hdpaper
portal_order: 24
ppn_swb: 1643828355
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-49063
language: eng
bibsort: ABBIANVITAWHOSELANGU2004
full_text_status: public
series: Heidelberg Papers in South Asian and Comparative Politics
volume: 24
citation:   Abbi, Anvita ; Hasnain, Imtiaz ; Kidwai, Ayesha  (2004) Whose Language is Urdu?  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/4906/1/hpsacp24.pdf