A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143471082 ISBN 13: 9780143471080

Publisher: Vintage Books, 2025

Synopsis

How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant by language, multilingualism, and translation. Challenging these institutions, A Multilingual Nation illustrates how the received notions of translation discipline do not apply to India. It provocatively argues that translation is not a ‘solution’ to the allegedly chaotic situation of many languages, rather it is its inherent and inalienable part. An unusual and unorthodox collection of essays by leading thinkers and writers, new and young researchers.

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About the Author

Rita Kothari is Professor of English, Ashoka University, India. She is a multilingual scholar of translation (theory and practice), language politics and identity in India. Her ethnographic work is based out of western India, especially Gujarat and Sindhi-speaking parts of Kutch and Rajasthan.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143471082
• ISBN 13: 9780143471080
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Kothari Rita