Rita Kothari
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How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant by language, multilingualism and translation. Challenging these institutions,
A Multilingual Nation illustrates how the received notions of translation discipline do ...
The book deals with translation in several non- western traditions. The essays show how social and historical contexts have shaped the way translations are rendered. They focus on multiple contexts of translation mainly in India, but also in Korea, Japan and South Africa.
Contents: Preface to the South Asian Edition. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction/Rita Kothari and Judy Wakabayashi. 2. Caste in and recasting language: Tamil in translation/G.J.V. Prasad. 3. ...
Situated in northern Kutch in Gujarat, the Banni grasslands lie on the border dividing India and Pakistan. It is home to diverse communities; while Muslim pastoralists form the majority, one also finds Dalit Hindus, and a community that is neither Hindu nor Muslim. Banni’s people, have for centuries, moved freely between Sindh (Pakistan) and Kutch (India)—a reason why, perhaps, the Indo-Pak border has not been able to produce a sense of bounded ...
post nineteen eighties, what made English translation from Indian languages a culturally desirable activity? This question leads Kothari to examine the changing cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India. She examines in detail readership patterns, attitudes to English and the course of translation studies in general. The comfort with which English is used with an Indian language as in "Yeh dil Maange More" or "Hungry ...
Unlike most partition narratives, the narrative of the Sindhis is not marked by violence and bloodshed. The Hindus of Sindh came to India by ship, camel and train, and were unharmed most of the time. The Burden of Refuge is about partition, and the resettlement and fragmentation of the Sindhi Hindus of India. Rita Kothari traces the trajectory of the Sindhi Hindus from Sindh to India, specifically to Gujarat. The Burden of Refuge tells the story of the Sindhi ...