Chhāp: Authority, Indexicality and Caste in Vernacular Theory.
As royal seal, poetic signature, textile print, numismatic image, or sectarian forehead marking, the chhāp in Hindi and Urdu bears witness to a physical act of impressing or marking by which an object is stamped with significance. Yet the chhāp is also the copy, duplicate, or imitation. This essay d...
| Publicado en: | Philological Encounters Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 318 - 339 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2025
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