The documents hint at more give-and-take in the scribal environment than the one-way “imperial” narrative premised on modern mono-linguistic identities.
What an 18th-Century Sale Deed Reveals About Language and Territory in the Deccan
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Prachi Deshpande is a historian at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her book Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices, and Cultural History in Western India is forthcoming later this year from Permanent Black.