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Songs of Kabir
The Floating Press 1915; US$ 5.99Kabir was an Indian poet in the 15th century. Songs of Kabir is the collection of his poetry, which first became accessible to the West in 1915. His deeply mystical poetry transcends specific religious ideology, and has thus touched a wide range of audiences. more...
Practice Makes Perfect Basic Hindi
McGraw-Hill Companies,Inc. 2012; US$ 16.00Bite-sized instruction and hundreds of engaging exercises to help you develop your Hindi script, grammar, vocabulary, and conversation skills. Get a solid foundation in Hindi with Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Hindi . You will learn everything from reading and writing the Devanagari script, to mastering of core vocabulary, basic grammar, and conversational... more...
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
De Gruyter 2007; US$ 182.00South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The AnnualReview... more...
Hindi
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 188.00This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories. The... more...
Sinhala
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2010; US$ 165.00Sinhala is one of the official languages of Sri Lanka and the mother tongue of over 70% of the population. Outside Sri Lanka it is used among immigrant populations in the U.K., North America, Australia and some European and Middle Eastern countries. As for the genetic relation, it belongs to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Although... more...
Marathi
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 165.00Marathi, an Indo-Aryan language, is the official language of Maharashtra, including Mumbai. Father Thomas Stephens, the first English traveler to Goa, a pioneer linguist, wrote Christa Puran in Marathi (1616) and Arte da Lingoa Canarim in Portuguese, printed in (1640). The latter is a grammar of Konkani, a language closely related to Marathi. It... more...
Romani in Britain
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 65.00A comprehensive academic work dedicated to the unique speech form of English Romanies/Gypsies often called Anglo-Romani. more...
Romani in Contact
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1995; US$ 158.00A language of Indic origin heavily infuenced by European idioms for many centuries now, Romani provides an interesting experimental field for students of language contact, linguistic minorities, standardization, and typology. Approaching the language via its ever-surfacing character as a language in contact, the volume gives expression to part of the... more...
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual... more...
I Won't Let You Go
Bloodaxe Books 2011; US$ 16.04Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) is India's greatest modern poet and the most brilliant creative genius produced by the Indian Renaissance. As well as poetry, he wrote songs, stories and novels, plays, essays, memoirs and travelogues. He was both a restless innovator and a superb craftsman, and the Bengali language attained great beauty and power in... more...









