Wanderers Kings Merchants: The Story of India Through its Languages
By: Peggy Mohan
Contributor(s): MOHAN (Peggy)Material type: 
TextLanguage: English Publisher: India Penguin 2021Description: xvii,341 p. HB 22x14 cmISBN: 9780670093687Subject(s): Multilingualism | Indic philology | Indo-Aryan languages | Sociolinguistics | Language and cultureDDC classification: 491.1 Summary: history of Indian languages - primarily Sanskrit - from the angle of language contacts and mixtures
One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of Urdu, language formation in the North-east, it presents the astounding argument that all Indians are of mixed origins.It explores the surprising rise of English after Independence and how it may be endangering India’s native languages.
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history of Indian languages - primarily Sanskrit - from the angle of language contacts and mixtures
One of India’s most incredible and enviable cultural aspects is that every Indian is bilingual, if not multilingual. Delving into the fascinating early history of South Asia, this original book reveals how migration, both external and internal, has shaped all Indians from ancient times. Through a first-of-its-kind and incisive study of languages, such as the story of early Sanskrit, the rise of Urdu, language formation in the North-east, it presents the astounding argument that all Indians are of mixed origins.It explores the surprising rise of English after Independence and how it may be endangering India’s native languages.
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