In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

Delhi Police mentions Bengali as 'Bangladeshi National Language' in an official letter. Mamata Banerjee and MK Stalin alleges the BJP government of insulting Bengal. BJP alleges TMC of defending ...

Voices from the south and west of India have risen in condemnation of the Delhi police’s description of Bengali, the language of more than 10 crore people living in India, as “Bangladeshi national ...

We usually understand language as a means of communication between people. But language is not limited to communication alone; it also affects or shapes power structures and sociocultural identity. In ...