G.J.V. Prasad, ed. India in Translation, Translation in India.

Abstract

G.J.V. Prasad introduces his new volume by playfully listing the various names used to refer to India, initially derived from the river Sindhu, later called Indus by foreigners, while other names, like Bharat and Hindustan, still persist in everyday speech. He points at the very flexible, and at times contradictory use of the lexicon, with the word Hindustan belonging both to Muslim rule during the Mughal period and to Hindu extreme-right discourse in more recent history. Multilingual India,...