If All the World Were Paper: A History of Writing in Hindi

by Tyler W. Williams

How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in Southern Asia and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world today. Emerging onto the literary scene of India in the mid-fourteenth century, the vernacular of Hindi quickly acquired a place alongside "classical" languages like Sanskrit...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231211120
• ISBN13: 9780231211123
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"