The multi-volume People´s Linguistic Survey of India (PLSI), provides an overview of the extant and dying languages of India, as evolved till 2011, and as perceived by their speakers. The volumes chronicle the evolution of these languages in all their socio-political and linguistic dimensions, and encapsulate the worldview of their speakers.

The work addresses the need to look at the languages of indigenous people, minority communities, and the marginalised and bring them to the centre ........