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India's fourteenth language: A publisher's rumination

India's fourteenth language: A publisher's rumination LOGOS India's fourteentli language: A pubiislier's rumination Urvashi Butalia Co'founder of Kali for Women, Indians first and only feminist publishing house, Urvashi Butalia has been in publishing for twenty years. Before setting up Kali in 1984, she worked for Oxford University Press in India and Zed Books in London. She is currently working on two major research projects; the impact of the history of colonial publishing in India on contemporary Indian publishing and an oral history of the experiences of men and women who lived through the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947- W h i c h countiy has the biggest output of books in English aftei Biitain and t h e US? T h e answei is India. Foity-six yeais aftei becoming independent of Biitish lule, India continues to maintain English as the alternative official language to Hindi. Those who speak, lead and wiite English aie a small minoiity in India, but in a countiy so vast, a minoi- ity means about 30 million people - mote t h a n the total populations of Australia or C a n a d a . W h i l e most of t http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Logos Brill

India's fourteenth language: A publisher's rumination

Logos , Volume 4 (4): 181 – Jan 1, 1993

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Brill
Copyright
© 1993 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0957-9656
eISSN
1878-4712
DOI
10.2959/logo.1993.4.4.181
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LOGOS India's fourteentli language: A pubiislier's rumination Urvashi Butalia Co'founder of Kali for Women, Indians first and only feminist publishing house, Urvashi Butalia has been in publishing for twenty years. Before setting up Kali in 1984, she worked for Oxford University Press in India and Zed Books in London. She is currently working on two major research projects; the impact of the history of colonial publishing in India on contemporary Indian publishing and an oral history of the experiences of men and women who lived through the partition of British India into India and Pakistan in 1947- W h i c h countiy has the biggest output of books in English aftei Biitain and t h e US? T h e answei is India. Foity-six yeais aftei becoming independent of Biitish lule, India continues to maintain English as the alternative official language to Hindi. Those who speak, lead and wiite English aie a small minoiity in India, but in a countiy so vast, a minoi- ity means about 30 million people - mote t h a n the total populations of Australia or C a n a d a . W h i l e most of t

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