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View article: Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices
Mapping Language: Names, Speakers and Voices Open
Maps have long been understood as texts, encumbered with internal and socio‐contextual meanings and evoking different ways of interpreting, representing or writing space. However, the abstraction of mapping as language can obscure the impo…
View article: Provincialising Global Oncology
Provincialising Global Oncology Open
View article: George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36
George Grierson’s map and the remaking of Orissa, 1917–36 Open
In their petition to Edwin Montagu in 1917, the Utkal Sammilani, a pan-Oriya forum, used the Linguistic Survey’s map of Oriya to represent a political and territorial claim to a majoritarian linguistic province. However, for George Grierso…
View article: Kamlesh Mohan, <i>Science and Technology in Colonial India</i> London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-1-032-36479-7. £96.00 (hardback).
Kamlesh Mohan, <i>Science and Technology in Colonial India</i> London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. 176. ISBN 978-1-032-36479-7. £96.00 (hardback). Open
View article: Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928
Correspondence, scale and the Linguistic Survey of India's colonial geographies of language, 1896–1928 Open
This paper examines the Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), a monumental exercise supervised by George Grierson to survey and classify the languages of colonial India. It considers why the LSI developed into an atypical scheme that correspon…
View article: The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927
The Linguistic Survey of India’s Experiment in Mapping Languages, 1896–1927 Open
The Linguistic Survey of India (LSI), supervised by the Anglo-Irish linguist and civil servant George A. Grierson, surveyed and classified more than seven hundred languages and dialects. An integral part of the state-funded survey was mapp…