Silencing and Languaging in the Assembling of the Indian Nation-State: British Public Citizens, the Epistolary Form, and Historiography

Autor/in	Ramanathan, Vaidehi
Titel	Silencing and Languaging in the Assembling of the Indian Nation-State: British Public Citizens, the Epistolary Form, and Historiography
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 8 (2009) 2-3, S.203-219 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
Schlagwörter	Historiography; Letters (Correspondence); Foreign Countries; Foreign Policy; Language Planning; Discourse Analysis; Nationalism; Language Usage; History; India; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschichtsschreibung; Brief; Ausland; Außenpolitik; Sprachwechsel; Diskursanalyse; Nationalismus; Sprachgebrauch; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Indien; Großbritannien
Abstract	Taking the case of postcolonial India, this paper explores ways in which present temporal junctures permit a probing of historical boundaries to speak of voices largely silenced from Indian historiography, namely those of British (Indian) public citizens who were committed to the assembling of "an India." In particular, the paper discusses ways in which letters to and by Charles Andrews, Edward Thompson and John Amery debated ideas about carving an India out of the Empire and how this epistolary form in all its incompleteness mirrors the ongoing suspension of a collective assembly such as that of a nation. Heeding Radhakrishnan's cautions (2003) about turning history pages in other ways, the paper meditates on the dangers of the hardening borders of (postcolonial) nations--particularly India--and brings to the center silenced minor histories that at an earlier juncture escaped the historian's archive (Chakrabarty, 1998). Threaded through the exploration are also metaphysical ruminations on the relations of the silenced and languaged, silencing and languaging, and more general, silence and language. The paper also raises issues about the discursive construction of (postcolonial) nations through language and policies (Ricento, 2003; Wiley, 2004; Wodak, 2001). (Contains 3 tables and 6 footnotes.) (As Provided).
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