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AMESALL Distinguished Lecture: “A Relativist View of the Indian Nation” by Partha Chatterjee
October 9, 2020 @ 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Research in the last three decades on the print literatures in the various Indian languages has revealed that the consciousness of the people as constituting a nation was deeply grounded in the emergence in the 19th and 20th centuries of the regional vernaculars as standardized print languages. But the identity of the people-nation in each region had constituent features that were not the same everywhere. At the same time, the identity of a linguistic community as a people was located within a larger identity of belonging to the Indian nation.
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