...Sohini Sarah Pillai Abstract Inspired by Allison Busch's pioneering scholarship on Bhasha (Old Hindi) literature associated with the Mughal court, this article explores the manuscript history of a seventeenth-century Bhasha text that repeatedly praises the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb (r. 1658–1707...

... as constituting a binary between literary and spoken Telugu. It either emphasizes the proximate access speech provides to people's emotive worlds and experiences, 14 or it reiterates that poetic ( kavyabhasha ) and everyday language ( vyavaharika bhasha ) are different linguistic mediums. 15 However...

... a sion and films give, by default, certain impermeability to bhasha, the current speech, distinguished from Sanskrit or large sections of the masses. Thus, by its constitution and Persian, natural, un-selfconscious, anonymous, speech. The monopolistic propagation, the standard appropriates the lan...

... by generic terms such as Bhasha (speech) or Hindavi (pertaining to Hindustan) since the early modern period. The process of naming certain languages began earlier, as the example of Brajbhasha shows, but the late eighteenth century is notable for an increasing sense of self-conception and definition...

... to Bhasha Pera• posed parity, but who was to follow the party line and speak muna is worth nothing. As early as 1951, the All-Ceylon for parity at a meeting at the Colombo Town Hall in 1955, Swabhasha Teachers Trade Union in a Sinhala pamphlet en• was badly beaten up by thugs on this occasion. titled...

... literary possibilities and cultural connotations embedded in the target language. Harivallabha redeployed Damodara's Sangitadarpana : to “vernacularize” was not simply to render the Sanskrit into the bhasha linguistically but also to install it in a distinctive imaginary and cultural universe with its...

... monasteries continue to publish printed editions of these writings to this day). 8 Due to their circulation, I consider these two teachings the more universal texts. Composed in a language that is often referred to as Sant Bhasha or Sadhukkari , 9 a standard transregional dialect of Hindavi...

... parallel illustration Asian Bhasha literatures, regardless of whether their of Mohammed ‘Ali’s “tools of empire” with those of Bhasha literature has been as thoroughly covered as the British later in the century. In the book’s opening they would wish, will profit from reading it, to get a chapter...

... parallel illustration Asian Bhasha literatures, regardless of whether their of Mohammed ‘Ali’s “tools of empire” with those of Bhasha literature has been as thoroughly covered as the British later in the century. In the book’s opening they would wish, will profit from reading it, to get a chapter...

... parallel illustration Asian Bhasha literatures, regardless of whether their of Mohammed ‘Ali’s “tools of empire” with those of Bhasha literature has been as thoroughly covered as the British later in the century. In the book’s opening they would wish, will profit from reading it, to get a chapter...

... parallel illustration Asian Bhasha literatures, regardless of whether their of Mohammed ‘Ali’s “tools of empire” with those of Bhasha literature has been as thoroughly covered as the British later in the century. In the book’s opening they would wish, will profit from reading it, to get a chapter...

... parallel illustration Asian Bhasha literatures, regardless of whether their of Mohammed ‘Ali’s “tools of empire” with those of Bhasha literature has been as thoroughly covered as the British later in the century. In the book’s opening they would wish, will profit from reading it, to get a chapter...

.... 60Nalini Ray, “Bharate Chalacchitra,” Probashi (1337), re- 24Chitravas Vols. 2&3 (14), 101. produced in Debiprasad Ghosh ed., Bangla Bhashae Chalacchitra 25Chitravas Vols. 2&3 (14), 101. Charcha, 1923-33, (Calcutta: Cine Club of Calcutta, 1990), 66; 26Someshwar...

... of change from Sanskrit of the Vedic Avadhesh Kumar Singh Literature that the ISCL can derive principles times to Braj Bhasha via the Pali language and or methodology from the Alamkar School of concluded that the soul of poetry remained Literary Contactuality India...

... in the rural areas of Rajshahi and Mymensingh districts, and the first part of his autobiography in Bengali, concludes with the Bhasha Andolan of 1952. His reasons for writing the autobiography are best stated in the words of the preface: "The experience of the past...

... termed hindavi (Indian) in Persian sources, and bhakha ( bhasha —i.e., “language”) in non-Persian ones. The qasbas stood isolated in a countryside largely controlled by armed chieftains in mud forts—Hindu, Afghan, and Turkic—who provided military labor to a succession of rulers until the Great...

... of Naranarayana). 22 Brajāwalī (distinct from the northern Braj Bhasha) bore likeness to the poetic language of the fifteenth-century Maithili poet Vidyapati, although Sankaradeva introduced linguistic features that made the new literary register distinct from Maithili and Brajabuli of early modern Bihar...

...-­i hunud Urdu bhasha ). The or- the reception of peace — in general, [he became occupied with] the explanation of the words in- nate cover uses a vocabulary of Islamic mysti...

... multilingual environments, 7 and the Sikhs were no exception. Sikhs produced literature in multiple languages, including Punjabi, Persian, Sanskrit, Sant Bhasha, and Brajbhasha. Yet, while this fact is well attested in scholarship, Punjabi has often been perceived as a main pole of identification for Sikhs...

... was considered the national language. The struggle to establish Bangla as the language of East Pakistan was one for which many people laid down their lives. These people are known and respected and feted today as bhasha...