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...Valentina Vitali Duke University Press 2006 On the Frontal Subjects of the Hindi Melodrama: Notes for a Comparative Approach to Film Valentina Vitali 1. The View from the Center This essay attempts to arrive...

...Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar What exactly was invented when the language department of Bhakka was formally instituted at Fort William College in 1801 and Lallu Jee Lal was selected as the first Braj Bhakka scholar? Hindi polemicists celebrate Pundit Lallu Jee Lal’s invention of a Hindi purified of Yavani...

... is consolidated by groundless and nonobligatory mergers between neoliberal postulates and the pieties of a so-called tradition. The essay illustrates this phenomenon through some examples from popular Hindi cinema. Hindutva and Informatic Modernization The recent renaissance of such hard-right thinkers...

... their differences, these views establish popular film music—Hindi film song and dance in particular—as a crucial, and by no means exhausted, field of inquiry for those interested in thinking about film history as media archaeology within the context of Indian cinema. While the arguments mentioned above...

... of 1947 (or even of 1946–48) but to a his- tory of social communal identifications coextensive with the history of the Indian modern itself. The immense popularity of Faiz’s poetry in the Urdu- Hindi regions, its almost iconic status as a pan–South Asian oeuvre, is a vague but nevertheless conclusive...

... followers? 17 In Meera’s case, we move away from 16. Parasuram Chaturvedi, ed., Mirabai ki Padavali (Allahabad: Hindi Sahitya Sammelan, 1983), 19. 17. Two of Meera’s poems are found in seventeenth-century literature: one in the Adi Granth (Lucknow: Bhavan Vani Trust, 1978–82), and the other...

..., and the anthology Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance (2008). Basu is currently completing a book manu- script entitled The Geo-televisual Aesthetic: Information, Capital, and Religiosity in Popular Hindi Cinema (1991–2004) and is guest-editing a special issue of South Asian Popular...

... . Savarkar Vinayak Damodar . (1923) 2003 . Hindutva . Delhi : Hindi Sahitya Sadan . Schmitt Carl . (1921) 2014 . Dictatorship: From the Origin of the Modern Concept of Sovereignty to Proletarian Class Struggle . Cambridge : Polity . Schmitt Carl . (1922) 2005 . Political...

... examines the split- ting of the northern Indian vernacular into modern Hindi and Urdu as a colonial project—a strangely neglected nexus to this day—and the latter’s essay concerns the massive inventiveness brought to bear by colonial state and knowledge practices on indigenous...

... of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003 (2006). Valentina Vitali teaches comparative film studies at the University of Ulster (Northern Ireland), where she obtained a PhD for her thesis ‘‘The Aesthetics of Cultural Mod- ernization: Hindi Cinema 1947–1957’’ (2001). Her work has appeared in Inter...

... religious groupings, Hindu, Christian, Muslim, or Parsi. 4. Admittedly, Tamil Nadu is not a representative site of Hindutva politics in the same way that what is known as the “Hindi heartland” located in the northern states of the country is. But the Kanchi math is an important center of brahmin...

... the formation of what Mufti calls the “supposedly distinct” vernaculars and literary traditions of “Hindi” and “Urdu” from a northern Indian vernacular linguistic complex established as a lingua franca under seventeenth-century­ Mughal rule. Mufti’s account dates the emergence of this “linguistic...

... nation-state, the Hindi writer Phaniswarnath Renu. Known for his liter- ary depictions of some of the most economically decimated landscapes of postcolonial India, Renu gave up the Padmashree (a high national award for cultural achievement) in 1975 to protest what he saw as the dictatorship...

..., but this was not sari season and never would it 108 boundary 2 / November 2015 be, not for a tween like me. I wouldn’t be caught dead in a salwar kameez or kurta pajamas. At that age, I was sure I wouldn’t utter anything in Hindi, even during my fits of whining, like your typical Indian girl, which under...

... that Kiernan, too, offers a literal translation that manages to avoid casting the speaker of the poem in the nominative: Suddenly today cut by the string of my glance Sun and moon broke into pieces in the firmament. (FVK, 249) 21. Entry in John T. Platt, Urdu, Classical Hindi...

... imagination: a Hindu nation with its distinctive Hindu culture, Hindi national language, and saffron flag. As the chapter wears on, we encounter mass-mediated Hindutva in television, in Bollywood, and in an expanding informatic culture. Here, Basu's account of complex mediascapes intersects with media...

..., in this universalist sense of the modern, “with its particular Latinate etymology and genealogy marks . . . [a] . . . process of assimilation of diverse cultures of writing, a process only partially concealed by the use of such vernacular terms as ’adab (Arabic, Persian, Urdu) and sãhitya (Hindi...

... has left the agency and joins his wife in her work. The public hopes embodied in Kwang, who would ride home on the subway and “greet his citizens in Spanish, Hindi, Mandarin, Thai, Portu- guese” (268), dwindle down to Henry “wear[ing] a green rubber hood” and playing the role of “the Speech...

..., and modern French and German and Hindi are the children. 28 boundary 2 / February 2021 Yet recent historical linguists have started to raise serious questions about how accurate this model is. After all, languages have very perme- able boundaries. Unlike organisms, we don t even have a rough-and-ready sense...

... on the qualities of a medium. Showing how the reception of songs from popular Hindi cinema removes them from their narrative context, circulating as autonomous units through radio, television, cell phone ringtones, and social media, Majumdar argues that this popular usage warrants a revised account of how...