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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...

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Published in:Philological Encounters Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 318 - 339
Main Author: Lee, Joel
Format: Article
Published: Brill Academic Publishers 2025
Subjects:
Caste
Semiotics
Colloquial language
Emblems
Poetry (Literary form)
Symbolism
Indexicals (Semantics)
Power (Social sciences)
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