Tag: language
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Class consciousness in Kashmiri literature
Language is deeply imbricated in the flesh of civilisation. Chomsky beautiful explains relation between language and freedom and how “language, in its essential properties and in a manner of its use provides a basic criterion for determining that an organism is a being with a human mind”. Therefore, the will to express is the basis of…
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Persian and Kashmir: A story of poetics and power
With Persian becoming the court language, a new breed of functionaries was brought to fore who chose Persian over Kashmiri and Sanskrit to stay in the echelons of power. Even though there were mass conversions in Kashmir, and contrary to the popular belief, it were the Kashmiri Brahmans and a few elite Muslims who became…
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