South Asian Language & Literature

This geographical atlas constitutes the first systematic presentation of the spatial and quantitative characteristics of the distribution of languages in the countries of South Asia. Combining and comparing language data from various national censuses, this atlas enables readers to actually see the geographical location, extension and linguistic affinities of any of the numerous languages spoken in South Asia.

Negotiating Languages casts lexicographers as key figures in the political realignment of South Asia under British rule and in the years after independence. Their dictionaries document how a single, mutually intelligible language evolved into two competing registers-Urdu and Hindi-and became associated with contrasting religious and nationalist goals.

Other Tongues: Rethinking the Language Debates in India explores the implications of the energetic and, at times, acrimonious public debate among Indian authors and academics over the hegemonic role of Indian writing in English.

Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī offers a commented edition of one hundred poems of medieval mystic and thinker Kabīr, a detailed treatment of morphological structure of the language and its main syntactic features, numerous textual examples, and a glossary.

These 4 volumes contain articles on central linguistic themes, their related concepts and relationships with other disciplines. They intend to be authoritative, comprehensive and international in scope, while appealing to an academic audience.

The goal of this source is to present articles on the full range of linguistic disciplines (applied, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, etc.) and their inter-relationships, as well as their intersections with other disciplines.