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Bengali
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2012; US$ 173.00Bangla (Bengali), an Eastern Indo-Aryan Language, is the national language of Bangladesh with 150 million speakers and the state language of Paschim Banga (West Bengal) in India with 90 million speakers. There are sizeable communities of Bengalis scattered all over the world. Altogether, the number of native speakers make Bangla the fifth or sixth... more...
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
De Gruyter 2012; 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...
The Hagiographies of Anantadas
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 190.00Anantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian... more...
Colloquial Hindi 2e
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 31.95This new and extensively revised edition of Colloquial Hindi is easy to use and completely up to date. Specially written by experienced teachers for self-study or class use, the course offers you a step-by-step approach to written and spoken Hindi. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Hindi is: interactive: with lots... more...
The Major Languages of Eastern Europe
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 110.00Based on Comrie's much-praised The World's Major Languages , this is the first comprehensive guide in paperback to descibe in detail the language families of Eastern Europe, and includes an introduction which surveys the field. more...
Kashmiri
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 64.95Kashmir boasts a language which challenges every field of linguistics. Kashmiri is spoken by approximately 3,000,000 people. Its syntax, similar to Germanic and other verb second languages, has raised many significant issues within current generative theories proposed by Chomsky and other prominent linguists. more...
Fifty Poems of Hafiz
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95Translation of a selection of poems from one of the world's greatest lyric poets. First published 1947. more...
Linguistic Archaeology of South Asia
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 190.00Linguistics Archaeology of South Asia brings together linguistics and archaeological evidence of South Asian prehistory. more...
The Islamic Drama
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 59.95Described by the distinguished theatre director Peter Brook as 'a very powerful form of theatre', the Ta'ziyeh is the Islamic drama of Iran. This work examines the evolution of the Ta'ziyeh, which involved elements drawn from Zoroastrianaism, Mithraism, mythology, folklore and traditional forms of Iranian entertainment. In its final form, most of its... more...
Literary Radicalism in India
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of postcolonial India. Through readings of major fiction,... more...









