PLSI Volume One: The Being of Bhasha: A General Introduction

by G.N. Devy

The first volume of the people’s linguistic survey of india brings to the reader the journey undertaken in 2010, by a group of visionaries led by g n devy to document the languages of india as they existed then the aim of the people’s linguistic survey of india was to document these languages, spoken in india’s remotest corners india’s towns and cities too have found a voice in this survey what this journey did was to bring a groundswell of support from people from all walks of life, leading to the being of bhashatable of  acknowledgements prologue the national editorial collective list of volumes the living indian languages speech and writing what is the people’s linguistic survey the plsi process the being of bhasha references appendix 1: some growing non-scheduled languages appendix 2: the unesco list of languages in danger appendix 3: the unclassified ‘mother tongues’ in the 1961 census appendix 4: languages known to the country index

152 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2013

About the author

Ganesh N. Devy, formerly professor of English at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, a renowned literary critic and activist is founder and director of the Tribal Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, and director of the Sahitya Akademi’s Project on Literature in Tribal Languages and Oral Traditions. He was educated at Shivaji University, Kolhapur and the University of Leeds, UK. Among his many academic assignments, he has held fellowships at Leeds and Yale Universities and has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow (1994-96).

Currently (2002 - 2007), he is a Professor at the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Commmunication Technology (DA-IICT), Gandhinagar.

Awards

He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award for `After Amnesia', and the SAARC Writers’ Foundation Award for his work with denotified tribals. He has also won the reputed Prince Claus Award (2003) awarded by the Prince Claus Fund for his work for the conservation of the history, languages and views of oppressed communities in the Indian state of Gujarat.

Along with Laxman Gaikwad and Mahashweta Devi, he is one of the founders of The Denotified and Nomadic Tribes Rights Action Group (DNT-RAG).

Publications

* Critical Thought (1987)
* In Another Tongue (1992)
* Of Many Heroes (1997)
* India Between Tradition and Modernity (co-edited, 1997)
* Indian Literary Criticism: Theory & Interpretation (2002).
* Painted Words: An Anthology of Tribal Literature (editor, 2002).
* A Nomad Called Thief (2006)
* Keywords: Truth (contributor, date unknown)
* Vaanprastha (in Marathi, date unknown)
* Adivasi Jane Che (in Gujarati, date unknown).