Multilingualism in India is a challenging and stimulating study of the nature and structure of multilingualism in the Indian subcontinent. India, with 1652 mother tongues, between two hundred and seven hundred languages belonging to four language families, written in ten major script systems and a host of minor ones, represents multilingualism unparalleled in the democratic world. With four thousand castes and communities and equal numbers of religious faiths and cults, its multilingualism matches its pluriculturalism.
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978-1-85359-072-6 (9781853590726)
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D. P. Pattanayak: Introduction
1. B. P. Mahapatra: A Demographic Appraisal of Multilingualism in India
2. Bh. Krishnamurti: The Regional Language vis-a-vis English as the Medium of Instruction in Higher Education: The Indian Dilemma
3. E. Annamalai: Linguistic Dominance and Cultural Dominance: A Study of Tribal Bilingualism in India
4. A. K. Srivastava: Multilingualism and School Education in India: Special Features, Problems and Prospects
5. A. K. Mohanty: Psychological Consequences of Mother Tongue Maintenance and Multilingualism in India
6. R. N. Srivastava and R. S. Gupta: Literacy in a Multilingual Context
7. H. R. Dua: Multilingualism from a Language Planning Perspective: Issues and Prospects
8. Jennifer Bayer: Language and Social Identity
