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“The concept of modernity in literary history was also related to the relation each Indian language and literature developed with English. Sanskrit and Persian literary models were labelled as traditional and medieval, and those found in English, irrespective of any period, as modern (page 22)”
― Francesca Orsini, The Hindi Public Sphere 1920-1940: Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism
tags: history, language, modernity
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