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    1998. “Glottopolitics of Linguistic Subalternity in India’ (Project-Report) Udayan-II (pp.8-9). CALTS Student Alliance Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. Central University of Hyderabad. 2007. Letter to the Editor, "On Language Movement". Kalodhvani. 13:3. (pp. 6-8). January'07 RN 48309/87 The investigator was searching the imagined E-linguistic boundaries. He was then (1998-2003) searching linguistically movement-prone zones -- where there was a need/demand/desire for monolingual state, the investigator was penetrating that place with his anotomo-bio-political tools. How did people identify themselves with their language-names? The investigator was albeit confused as he could not find out the enumerated boundary of monolingual state anywhere in the geo-politics of India. Even some people had cut a sorry figure to name their own language(s). Under the hegemonic control of modular standard language within an imagined nation state, the capital-incentive language-Industry is proliferated by the introduction of electronic as well as print capitalism with the help of ideological state apparatuses. If “other” captive/defeated varieties’ (so-called dialects) the speaking/hearing subjects revolt against the supposed “central” externalized language and withdraw their affiliation from the abstract umbrella of the supposed monolingual nation state, the situation was observed as language movement. This is a case of mutual resemblance or anyonyopratibimba (or the theory of double negation as it was found in Samkhya darsana), where the dominated is reflecting on the images of the dominator; the dominating paradigm is followed and copied -- all the state organs, ideological and repressive state apparatuses, were repeated in a form of reverse mimicry. A new class of language-managers/-judges/-polices were working with Sagina Mahato Syndrome (cf. Formal Elaboration of social Hierarchy or FESH, Dasgupta, 1993). Thus, here svatva was not established, but was manifested in a form of self-other exchanges and reflections. However, there is another side of the story, Investigator had seen the barefoot pilgrims’ journey -- pilgrims’ progress. “They” were communicating with each other, at the vyavaharika (appearance) level, but surprisingly enough, they are maintaining their languages without using speed capitalist instruments. There was no question of identification of language as communication was more important. This pluriligualism need no money. In this case, investigator was associating his experiences with Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. The Bangla version (2007) of this project report is attached herewith to understand the anatomo-bio-politics of funded research and the investigator was sharing his experience of surveying with so many constraints. Note: Downloadable document is in Bangla. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: imagined E-linguistic boundaries, language-managers, judges, polices, Sagina Mahato Syndrome, anotomo-bio-politics, electronic and print capitalism, capital-incentive language, Industry, reverse mimicry Accepted Paper Series

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    1998. “Glottopolitics of Linguistic Subalternity in India’ (Project-Report) Udayan-II (pp.8-9). CALTS Student Alliance Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. Central University of Hyderabad. 2007. Letter to the Editor, "On Language Movement". Kalodhvani. 13:3. (pp. 6-8). January'07 RN 48309/87 The investigator was searching the imagined E-linguistic boundaries. He was then (1998-2003) searching linguistically movement-prone zones -- where there was a need/demand/desire for monolingual state, the investigator was penetrating that place with his anotomo-bio-political tools. How did people identify themselves with their language-names? The investigator was albeit confused as he could not find out the enumerated boundary of monolingual state anywhere in the geo-politics of India. Even some people had cut a sorry figure to name their own language(s). Under the hegemonic control of modular standard language within an imagined nation state, the capital-incentive language-Industry is proliferated by the introduction of electronic as well as print capitalism with the help of ideological state apparatuses. If “other” captive/defeated varieties’ (so-called dialects) the speaking/hearing subjects revolt against the supposed “central” externalized language and withdraw their affiliation from the abstract umbrella of the supposed monolingual nation state, the situation was observed as language movement. This is a case of mutual resemblance or anyonyopratibimba (or the theory of double negation as it was found in Samkhya darsana), where the dominated is reflecting on the images of the dominator; the dominating paradigm is followed and copied -- all the state organs, ideological and repressive state apparatuses, were repeated in a form of reverse mimicry. A new class of language-managers/-judges/-polices were working with Sagina Mahato Syndrome (cf. Formal Elaboration of social Hierarchy or FESH, Dasgupta, 1993). Thus, here svatva was not established, but was manifested in a form of self-other exchanges and reflections. However, there is another side of the story, Investigator had seen the barefoot pilgrims’ journey -- pilgrims’ progress. “They” were communicating with each other, at the vyavaharika (appearance) level, but surprisingly enough, they are maintaining their languages without using speed capitalist instruments. There was no question of identification of language as communication was more important. This pluriligualism need no money. In this case, investigator was associating his experiences with Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. The Bangla version (2007) of this project report is attached herewith to understand the anatomo-bio-politics of funded research and the investigator was sharing his experience of surveying with so many constraints. Note: Downloadable document is in Bangla. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: imagined E-linguistic boundaries, language-managers, judges, polices, Sagina Mahato Syndrome, anotomo-bio-politics, electronic and print capitalism, capital-incentive language, Industry, reverse mimicry Accepted Paper Series

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    1998. “Glottopolitics of Linguistic Subalternity in India’ (Project-Report) Udayan-II (pp.8-9). CALTS Student Alliance Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies. Central University of Hyderabad. 2007. Letter to the Editor, "On Language Movement". Kalodhvani. 13:3. (pp. 6-8). January'07 RN 48309/87 The investigator was searching the imagined E-linguistic boundaries. He was then (1998-2003) searching linguistically movement-prone zones -- where there was a need/demand/desire for monolingual state, the investigator was penetrating that place with his anotomo-bio-political tools. How did people identify themselves with their language-names? The investigator was albeit confused as he could not find out the enumerated boundary of monolingual state anywhere in the geo-politics of India. Even some people had cut a sorry figure to name their own language(s). Under the hegemonic control of modular standard language within an imagined nation state, the capital-incentive language-Industry is proliferated by the introduction of electronic as well as print capitalism with the help of ideological state apparatuses. If “other” captive/defeated varieties’ (so-called dialects) the speaking/hearing subjects revolt against the supposed “central” externalized language and withdraw their affiliation from the abstract umbrella of the supposed monolingual nation state, the situation was observed as language movement. This is a case of mutual resemblance or anyonyopratibimba (or the theory of double negation as it was found in Samkhya darsana), where the dominated is reflecting on the images of the dominator; the dominating paradigm is followed and copied -- all the state organs, ideological and repressive state apparatuses, were repeated in a form of reverse mimicry. A new class of language-managers/-judges/-polices were working with Sagina Mahato Syndrome (cf. Formal Elaboration of social Hierarchy or FESH, Dasgupta, 1993). Thus, here svatva was not established, but was manifested in a form of self-other exchanges and reflections. However, there is another side of the story, Investigator had seen the barefoot pilgrims’ journey -- pilgrims’ progress. “They” were communicating with each other, at the vyavaharika (appearance) level, but surprisingly enough, they are maintaining their languages without using speed capitalist instruments. There was no question of identification of language as communication was more important. This pluriligualism need no money. In this case, investigator was associating his experiences with Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj. The Bangla version (2007) of this project report is attached herewith to understand the anatomo-bio-politics of funded research and the investigator was sharing his experience of surveying with so many constraints. Note: Downloadable document is in Bangla. Number of Pages in PDF File: 5 Keywords: imagined E-linguistic boundaries, language-managers, judges, polices, Sagina Mahato Syndrome, anotomo-bio-politics, electronic and print capitalism, capital-incentive language, Industry, reverse mimicry Accepted Paper Series

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    { t July-December, 1998 UDAYAN, 2 Newsletter Catts STUDENT ALLIANCE Centre for Applied Linguistics and Translation Studies (CALTS) University of Hyderabad UDAYAN:2 JULY-DECEMBER, 1998 & 2.2 The Glottopolitics of Linguistic Subalternity in Multilingual India (Linguistic Research Unit, financed by Indian Statistical Institute for the period of 1998-2003. Project Leader — Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay). The project solely devotes to the problems of heterogeneous linguistic attitudes of super ordinates and subaltems’ collaboration and non-collaboration regarding super ordinate mediators’ imposition of a single prestigious linguistic variety in the Indian plurilingual milieu with a view to understand the “inner domain” of the subaltens. The main objectives of the project are: i. to understand the nature of the language movements as either cohesive or devisive forces; or as self- deterministic forces aiming at socio-economic decentralization, ii, to understand the characteristics of movement- prone zones and linguistically deprived area, and iti. to develop a concept of linguistic planning in a pluralistic society like India to enhance the importance of mother-tongue education and to wipe off the hegemonic role of so-called upper class culture including the role of printed and electronic media. Though Indian subcontinent has a basic characteristic of linguistic convergence and peaceful co-existence of languages without hampering the basic autonomy, the UDAYAN:2 JULY-DECEMBER, 1998 o Eurocentric statist paradigm disrupts this state of affairs by solidifying the state boundary on the basis of identified languages. The basic fuzziness of language boundaries thus came under the identifiable structure under the control colonial regime. However, the linguistic outcasts do not obey such deployment solid structure. The either opted for a definite state boundary or a nation state in modular forms guided by the dictates of the print capitalism. The community was imagined but that imagination, as Partha Chatterjee (1993) pointed out, was shaped, derived and altered in the colonial context of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Thanks to this derivative and altered imaginations, the claims and counter-claims regarding imagined nation state in the module of language were and are rampant in the colonial and neo-/post-colonial context of India. This project will also try to understand these discourses of claims and counter-claims made by different imagined communities under the purview of print capitalism or newly introduced electronic capitalism of post-industrial society. 3] Ab RICE SE aieTow of Svat acrtT eto “orenge An @ Saar Crh otk) Sim Mieke Rear TCeT (we aT sree) Oy wen STO Fees Bergen Berets ove wa er tes eetogE te EF TATA fica ATT gee PO Rear arte Seer, abt twa er tt 2S oF cate Mam Sear cas 36 Beara Fowaet —-eretapa ore fee ren are ree Ree Bae H elrertce, FoF ae Frasca ~ a8 treceg ‘one? fers GTITE ast fim ser IR meCRT TeATT Sathre pete a A x mers Fores ane aft Ure HCE PI ae we mee four ‘GRora ere mera; HR) Seto ors Bape: fon) was Stet wre maita; Dia) SATE are etaT ZEN ESR ETT ey so) SPR TET ST Mew, We) 39-08 A «He, Te Bony Fe 6 HARV OT FTO ye ook FHS oe SET Ta ATE, Sy GT, 94 EPPS w gy SERR-ag erat efor Rep ak are FiPow ari ca ETE preteen or feo ape ST RR STR! AHS MST ne, wre Fe Fe Fg area ste, SATE «ame RT SEMARS, AT LOT WeTTRT ILA EOE AE UTE HTBIUT GE RTE ee BASS, is ocr Raters fe aie cate sic? Fm ee Fr wre eR ot coca TRIM “publish o petish™=e carmen (ae4 “oTRT’) Pet Fee re cat, Seve ce 7-4 - gE whe UP eM MIA ARN ATEN, age oe oy CTS Tee yy OF ave Sra ao ETCH RTS ee a OR BCT TRS oT Fiyper real 6 = fs afer aw a am cre corecm eH

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