01545nam a22002657a 4500 20230728165516.0 230728b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780670093687 AL English 23 MOHW 491.1 Peggy Mohan 128924 Wanderers Kings Merchants: The Story of India Through its Languages India Penguin 2021 xvii,341 p. HB 22x14 cm. BLCR-000026 ₹479.00 ₹ ₹599.00 20% 15-07-2023 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. Multilingualism 128836 Indic philology 128837 Indo-Aryan languages 128838 Sociolinguistics 128839 Language and culture 128840 MOHAN (Peggy) 128779 ddc BK 228184 228184 0 0 ddc 0 0 ENG AL AL 2023-07-22 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt.Ltd. 479.00 1 491.1 MOHW 076600 2023-09-06 00:00:00 2023-08-31 599.00 2023-07-28 BK