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Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages (English Edition) par [Peggy Mohan]

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One of India's most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of Urdu, language formation in the North-east, it presents the astounding argument that all Indians are of mixed origins.It explores the surprising rise of English after Independence and how it may be endangering India's native languages.

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12 avril 2021
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Peggy Mohan began life in Trinidad, West Indies, and earned a PhD in linguistics from the University of Michigan. She has taught linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jamia Millia Islamia, among other centres. She is the author of three novels, and has contributed to reputed publications, such as the Economic and Political Weekly and IIC Quarterly. She has developed educational television programmes for children, and learnt cartoon animation and opera singing. She now teaches music in Vasant Valley School, New Delhi. --Ce texte fait référence à l'édition hardcover.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B091CYW65Z
Éditeur ‏ : ‎ Viking (12 avril 2021)
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महत्वपूर्ण पुस्तक, लिंग्विस्टिक्स पर एक शानदार अध्ययन

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भाषाओं की यात्रा और विकास पर यह एक अद्भुत पुस्तक है। ध्वनियों का वैशिष्ट्य कैसे एक क्षेत्र विशेष की भाषा की पहचान बन जाती है, एक भाषा दूसरी भाषा से प्रभाव कैसे ग्रहण करती है, संज्ञा, क्रियाओं और सहायक क्रियाएँ एक भाषा से दूसरी भाषा में जाते समय क्या सुरक्षित रखती हैं और क्या खो देती हैं... भाषाएँ कैसे बदलती हैं और कैसे अपना अस्तित्त्व खो देती हैं इस सबका बड़ा विश्वसनीय अध्ययन है।

इतिहास के साथ भाषाओं की यात्रा, विशेषकर भारतीय संदर्भ में बेहद पठनीय और रोचक है। लेखिका का विश्व की भाषाओं के विकास में पारस्परिक साम्य और अंतर ढूँढ़ना, DNA अध्ययनों से नृवंशीय संगति बैठाना यह बेहद श्रमसाध्य काम रहा होगा।

मुझे कारण-कार्य को आधार बनाकर लिखी गई बातें ही ज़्यादा रुचती हैं और इस मामले में यह पुस्तक बिलकुल फिट बैठती है। भाषाओं का विकसन या लुप्तप्राय होना राजनीतिक- सामाजिक-आर्थिकी से कैसे गहराई से जुड़ा है, कि भाषाओं को बचाने का सारा भावनात्मक प्रयास लगभग व्यर्थ है और ऐसी ही कितनी मूल्यवान बातें हैं इसमें!

लिंग्विस्टिक्स में रुचि रखने वाले लोग ज़रूर पढ़ें, भारतीय और वैश्विक दोनों संदर्भों की समझ देने वाली यह पुस्तक अच्छी लगी।

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Ananda

An absorbing book about language contacts and influences in South Asia

Commenté en Inde le 21 juin 2021

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This is a well-written book that explores the history of Indian languages - primarily Sanskrit - from the angle of language contacts and mixtures.

The author Peggy Mohan is a long time educator in India, and an accomplished linguist. Her field of research and interest is the mixture of languages and the resultant hybridization produced - as creoles, pidgins or other bridge-languages.

The thrust of the book is on the mystery of a certain feature in Sanskrit, called retroflexion, which denotes the sounds like 'ṭ'- (ट) etc which, it is claimed, were not present in an earlier form of Sanskrit. They seem to have entered the language at a later stage of its journey in the Indian subcontinent, assuming it (Sanskrit) came into India with certain immigrants from India's northwest (the Aryans).

It is Mohan's skills as a story-teller that she tries to build the narrative, as simply as possible, of Sanskrit coming in contact with an existing language in the Indian subcontinent rich in retroflex sounds, coexisting for a while, and gradually incorporating the retroflex sounds from the indigenous language.

In a sense a classic linguistic whodunit, Mohan vivifies a part of history about which we have little direct evidence and fleshes it out with the scenario of early contact, co-habitation and a co-evolution of languages. She then attempts to test her hypothesis with a more recent case study, that of Malayalam, and its evolution with the arrival of Brahmins from north and north-western India.

The rest of the book contains briefer case studies of some more instances of language contact and the creation of bridge languages, like Nagamese for instance, with their own grammar and logic.

Mohan's flair for simple prose to explain complex concepts is a big bonus. Linguistics can be a highly technical field and Mohan mostly spares one of the gory details, while still keeping the story engaging and real.

One might have wished for a little more focus on languages like Tamil. For what is the "story of India through its languages" (the subtitle of the book) without some background of mighty langauges like Tamil, Telugu and maybe some of the older tribal languages like Munda, Santhali etc?

Mohan plays to her strengths and interests, in the area of language-contacts, and thus the stories she tells are illustrations of such contact, like Sanskrit, modern Malayalam, Urdu and Nagamese.

All in all, a good read. There is something about an expert like Mohan explicating difficult, scholarly research endeavors and distilling them for the common reader.

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Fascinating, profound and eye opening..

Commenté en Inde le 8 mai 2021

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Fascinating book for anyone who has even a remote interest in linguistics and languages.
It gives the reader a deep and profound understanding of the linguistic map of India and the forces at play shaping Indian languages and language families in the past and into the future.
This book even gives the reader food for thought into what it really means to be Indian, or more broadly how we think of ourselves as various political and cultural identities.
My only criticism of the book is that it focuses too much on retroflexion and leaves you feeling that several other elements could have been covered.

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Rahul Bedi

Unique but often ignored view on Indian history

Commenté en Inde le 11 juillet 2021

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Evolution of languages is often not well talked about the way genetics is for tracing human history, and this books fills that gap for Indian history.

The author balances her own well informed views and espertise in this area with work done by others to paint a unique journey of India through its languages. From Sanskrit to later languages, the story is fascinating.

A must read for those who want to explore another perspective on India's history post Harappa.

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Manisha

An eye-opening perspective to see history

Commenté en Inde le 18 janvier 2022

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This book gives such an illustrative view of history that you can see it getting unfold with each layer of time. This is not just about the people who were invaders and we know all about already. This includes the history of common people and their importance in their time. We know that the masses are poor in India and how these masses preserve history, the way this book explains that, its impeccable. It tells that a language is just a tool to communicate with the rest of the world and how it evolves over time is just amazing.

The speed with which the times are changing after internet happened, the local languages have started to get extinct but this book tells that its okay for this to happen coz eventually some languages die. It changes coz change is constant. It's important to understand that we live in a diverse world where we need to live a life of acceptance rather than division. Coz however much one tries to force their language or culture onto others, if it doesn't make people grow, they will not accept the forced changed and the masses will accept what's suitable for their sustainability.

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