10 Indian Languages And How They Came To Be

Description

This book talks about ten Indian languages―of the thousand-odd languages spoken in India―and their evolution, transformation and development. These languages are:

– Tamil
– Telugu
– Brahui
– Santali
– Khasi
– Kokborok
– Manipuri
– Marathi
– Punjabi
– Hindi

Karthik Venkatesh traces the long and varied journeys of these languages through time, examining the cultural shifts and political and social influences that have shaped them. He provides a glimpse of their literature, tracks the growth of their scripts and identifies landmark moments that have preserved and reinvented these ten Indian languages.