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The Language Loss of the Indigenous

This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The chapters here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the states, unwilling to protect and safeguard these marginalized communities.

This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural and literary studies, linguistics, sociology and social anthropology, as well as tribal and indigenous studies.

G. N. Devy is Founder of the Bhasha Research Centre at Baroda and Adivasi Academy at Tejgadh, Gujarat, India. He writes in three Indian languages Marathi, Gujarati and English and has received prestigious awards for his writings. Formerly he taught at the MS University of Baroda and the Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT). He is currently Chair of the Peoples Linguistic Survey of India and received the civilian honour of Padma Shri from the Government of India in 2014.

Geoffrey V. Davis is former Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at the University of Aachen, Germany. He has been international chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) and chair of the European branch. He co-edits Cross/Cultures: Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English and the African studies series Matatu. His publications include Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice (2006) and African Literatures, Postcolonial Literatures in English: Sources and Resources (2013).

K. K. Chakravarty, formerly in the Indian Administrative Services, has held several esteemed positions in his career as Chancellor of the National University for Educational Planning and Administration; Chairman, Lalit Kala Akademi, the national academy for visual arts; and Member Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Educated at Harvard, he has contributed several research articles to books and journals in archaeology, fine arts, philosophy and education.

The Language Loss of the Indigenous

First published 2016
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2016 G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis and K. K. Chakravarty

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ISBN: 978-1-138-12082-2 (hbk)
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Dedicated to

The memory of the late Prof. Lachman Khubchandani, who ceaselessly brought new questions to the field of sociolinguistics and taught several generations of linguists that speakers are far more important than speech, societies more complex than languages.

Contents

G. N. Devy

Gomati Bodra Hembrom

Keya Majumdar

Lidia Guzy

Shaily Sharma

A. Maria Mercy Amutha and G. Christopher

Sonia S. Kushwah and A. S. Kushwah

Banoth Deepa Jyothi

Lesibana J. Rafapa

Nelson Mbulaheni Musehane

Nishat Haider

Alex N. Wanjala

Lachman Mulchand Khubchandani

Digambar Maruti Ghodke

Rose Oro Aziza

Tony E. Afejuku and Alero Uwawah

P. I Iribemwangi

Chinenye Nwabueze and Ezinwanne Okoli

Maloba Wekesa

Perpetual Crentsil

Figures

Tables

AIDS	acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
AIPA	Association of Itsekiri Performing Artists
DCE	Douglas Creek Estates
ERT	emergency response team
FM	frequency medium
GO	government order
HIV	human immunodeficiency virus
IAS	Indian Administrative Services
ICT	information and communication technology
INEC	Independent Electoral Commission
ISD	Information Services Department
JSS	junior secondary school
LIE	language of the immediate environment
MDG	millennium development goals
MOMA	Museum of Modern Art (New York)
MT	mother tongue
NACA	National Action Committee on AIDS
NCE	National Certificate in Education
NGO	non-governmental organization
NITDA	Nigerian Information Technology Development Agency
n.p.	no publisher
NP	Nigerian Pidgin
NPE	National Policy on Education
OBC	other backward castes
RCAP	Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
RCMP	Royal Canadian Mounted Police
SQ	Suret du Qubec
SRC	States Reorganisation Commission

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