G. N. Devy is the chief editor of the PLSI series. He taught at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, till 1996 before leaving to set up the Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda and the Adivasi Akademi at Tejgadh. There, he worked towards conserving and promoting the languages and culture of indigenous and nomadic communities. Apart from being awarded the Padma Shri, he has received many awards for his work in literature and language conservation.

T. Vijay Kumar is a former Professor of English and Dean, Faculty of Arts, at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. His publications include critical studies: English and other international languages (PLSI Vol. 37) (edited; 2018), Globalisation: Australian-Asian perspectives (co-edited; 2014), Focus India: Postcolonial narratives of the nation (co-edited; 2007); and translations from Telugu: The liberation of Sita (co-translated; 2016, 2018) by Volga and Kanyasulkam (co-translated; 2002), an early twentieth-century classic by Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao. He is a TEDx speaker, Director of the annual Hyderabad Literary Festival, and one of the Founder Editors of Muse India: The literary ejournal.

The People’s Linguistic Survey of India
The National Editorial Collective
List of Volumes
Acknowledgements
Foreword

A Nation Proud of Its Language Diversity: Chief Editor’s Introduction  

Introduction—Tongue in Check: Indian Languages Abroad

Contributors to the Volume

1. Native Languages in Non-native Lands
2. On Not Forgetting my Mother Tongue: The Tamil Language from a Transdiasporic Perspective
3. Bangla Round the World
4. Punjabi Language Outside India
5. The Indian Languages of the Indians in Singapore
6. Cutchi and Gujarati Languages in Eastern Africa
7. Gulf Malayalam Dialect and the Malayali Diaspora in the Arabian Gulf
8. Hindi in the Fiji Islands
9. The Story of Trinidad Bhojpuri
10. Mauritian Bhojpuri Language and Culture: Ideology and Representations
11. An Autoethnographic Reflection on Telugu Language, Culture and Diaspora in South Africa
12. The Dispersion of Honey: Telugu in the Diaspora
13. Use and Maintenance of Kannada in the United States
14. Language, Ethnicity, and Socialisation in the Gujarati Diaspora in the United States

Index

LIST OF TABLES
Table 5.1: Indians in Malaya/Singapore by specific community, census of 1947
Table 5.2: Census data on Indians by ethnic group, 1957–2010
Table 5.3: Predominant household languages by ethnic groups, 1980–2010
Table 5.4: Number of sites for community language classes
Table 5.5: Student enrolment for Non-Tamil Indian languages: 2010–2018
Table 8.1: The pronoun system of Fiji Baat
Table 8.2: Derivation of the imperfective tense or present tense forms
Table 13.1: Kannada speakers in the United States in relation to speakers of other Indian languages