“Corrupt as this dialect is, it will not be totally useless”. Colonialism and an “anomalous” Indian language in Hadley’s Grammatical remarks
This contribution, based on Captain George Hadley’s Grammatical remarks on the practical and vulgar dialect of the Indostan language commonly called Moors (1772), casts light on the perception of “anomalies” in a vernacular Indian language, and the efforts to “reduce it to a system”, in order to mak...
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