Table of Contents

Introduction; Textual Heirarchies, Literate Audiences and Structures of Patronage: Language and Power in Pre-Colonial Western India; Colonial Education and the Laicisation of Knowledge: Re-making Cultural Hierarchies and Modes of Contestation; Colonial Education and the Cultuvation of English and Marathi: Hierarchies of Language and the Emerging Political Structure; Colonial Power, Print and the Re-making of the Literate Sphere; Bilingualism, Hegemony and the 'Swing to Orthodoxy': The Shaping of the Political Sphere; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index

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Examines the relationship between linguistic hierarchies, textual practices and power in colonial western India.

About the Author

Veena Naregal completed her PhD at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London). This book reflects her multi-disciplinary interests in post-colonial theory, alternative modernities and contemporary cultural politics.