Knowledge Commons | Madhumita Lahiri | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/mlahiri/activity/ Activity feed for Madhumita Lahiri. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:01:00 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 9582a5b37c521b9765b28f459b2b0a5e Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group TC Postcolonial Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590788/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:46:16 -0500 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 4bad72d4157b6e8f10fd9cde8ce24b77 Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group LLC South Asian and South Asian Diasporic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590787/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:44:41 -0500 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 3763e9486b4cabdf96516aa5ebcf2eeb Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590786/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:39:19 -0500 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 50243b848074170af7880d34e5b8e1a4 Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept in the group CLCS Global Anglophone https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590769/ Fri, 01 Dec 2017 05:36:29 -0500 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 cff4fcf6e2f2f2a73754de1532bfd2cc Madhumita Lahiri deposited An Idiom for India: Hindustani and the Limits of the Language Concept https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1590600/ Thu, 30 Nov 2017 03:02:14 -0500 This essay explores the cultural legacy of Hindustani, which names the intimate overlap between two South Asian languages, Hindi and Urdu. Hindi and Urdu have distinct religious identities, national associations and scripts, yet they are nearly identical in syntax, diverging to some extent in their vocabulary. Hindi and Urdu speakers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a90ce425b9f78b1906d6c39b8d2169bd Madhumita Lahiri became a registered member https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/546318/ Tue, 29 Mar 2016 18:23:08 -0400 0