If all the world were paper: a history of writing in hindi (Record no. 361805)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789363360938
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Transcribing agency AACR-II
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 891.4309 WIL
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Personal name Williams, Tyler W.
9 (RLIN) 21268
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title If all the world were paper: a history of writing in hindi
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Speaking Tiger Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 308p.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. "How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? Combining close readings of literary and scholarly works with the study of hundreds of handwritten books from the precolonial era, If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in India and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world today. The material and social processes through which Hindi came to be written down, and the particular forms these texts took—from illustrated storybooks of Sufi romances to loose-leaf textbooks used by Bhakti singers; from personal notebooks to cloth-wrapped scriptures—played a critical role in establishing it as a language capable of transmitting poetry, erudition, and even revelation. Emerging onto the literary scene of the subcontinent in the mid-fourteenth century, through humble and ornate literary objects alike, the vernacular of Hindi quickly came to acquire a place alongside ‘classical’ languages like Sanskrit and Persian as a medium of literature and scholarship, shaping its growth for centuries to come. Demonstrating how the life of books—the way they were inscribed, organized, and handled—can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the words within, Tyler W. Williams forcefully argues for a new approach to the history of languages. This book is both a history of Hindi’s literary formation and an urgent call to engage differently with the fragile multilingual archives of South Asia, before time and neglect erase them."
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History and criticism of Hindi literature
9 (RLIN) 21269
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Date last seen Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Price effective from Koha item type Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Withdrawn status Home library Current library Date acquired Cost, normal purchase price
2026-08-03   891.4309 WIL 186018 2026-08-03 Books Not Missing Dewey Decimal Classification Not Damaged     Gandhi Smriti Library Gandhi Smriti Library 2026-08-03 699.00

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