The Organization of the Writers’ Community as a linguistic minority *: The Santal Tribe

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Writers are often seen as individual intellectuals striving to influence the public from their own individual position. In this chapter charts the troubles as well as the successes of authors in the Santal linguistic community as they try to create organizations to sustain and strengthen the situation for the Santali language and the Santals themselves. One difficulty facing the Santal writers are the fact that Santali is written with a number of scripts. This and other factors create several public spheres among the Santals.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRe-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia : Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
EditorsPeter Birkelund Andersen, Rubya Mehdi, Amit Prakash
Number of pages10
Place of PublicationLondon and New York
PublisherRoutledge
Publication dateApr 2021
Edition1
Pages239-248
Chapter13
ISBN (Print)9780815385264 , 9780379754396
ISBN (Electronic)9781003162490
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2021

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