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G N Devy
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How print technology diminished oral traditions
For most part of India’s long history, multilingualism was a natural cultural condition for various regions in the subcontinent.
13 October 2024, 22:45 IST
How print technology diminished oral traditions
13 October 2024, 22:45 IST
Mapping India’s language traditions and diversity
In the pre-colonial epistemologies of language, hierarchy in terms of a standard and dialect was not common. Language diversity was an accepted fact of life. Literary artists could use several languages within a single composition, and their audience accepted the practice as normal.
07 October 2024, 01:05 IST
Mapping India’s language traditions and diversity
07 October 2024, 01:05 IST
The colonial response to language diversity
Its use primarily gained currency in Europe as a cultural history description when Edward Gibbon (1737–1794) published History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
29 September 2024, 22:32 IST
The colonial response to language diversity
29 September 2024, 22:32 IST
Ancient India and the age of language mixing
It is beyond doubt that a proto-Dravidian language variety had been in existence in South India, and most likely in various other parts of India as well, prior to its coming in contact with Sanskrit.
22 September 2024, 22:59 IST
Ancient India and the age of language mixing
22 September 2024, 22:59 IST
A civilisation founded on multilingualism
The myths, cosmology, worldview and philosophy that India has inherited from the Sanskrit ‘knowledge system’ are a result of a multilingual ethos.
15 September 2024, 23:36 IST
A civilisation founded on multilingualism
15 September 2024, 23:36 IST
Between silence & speech
In this week's Saturday Story, oral historian G N Devy recalls his 35-year journey of discovering muted languages
10 June 2023, 03:02 IST
Between silence & speech
10 June 2023, 03:02 IST
The Hindutva challenge to the historiography of India
No representation of history can ever capture the complexity of all that happened in the past
23 April 2023, 02:23 IST
The Hindutva challenge to the historiography of India
23 April 2023, 02:23 IST
India's history and the architects of obfuscation
29 October 2022, 22:46 IST
India's history and the architects of obfuscation
29 October 2022, 22:46 IST
An equitable future for all
India will also require nearly seven million trained high school teachers and a million college teachers, writes G N Devy
14 August 2022, 19:15 IST
An equitable future for all
14 August 2022, 19:15 IST
The spirit of Karnataka in jeopardy in textbooks
Pedagogic issues ignored in a rush to implement Revisionist Programme
05 June 2022, 03:17 IST
The spirit of Karnataka in jeopardy in textbooks
05 June 2022, 03:17 IST
