This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact.

"This highly original and timely collection brings together case studies from salient areas of the Himalayan region to explore the politics of language contact.

With its many and diverse languages, including some with very long documented histories, its cultural diversity, and its widespread multilingualism- both the st

The contribution of this collection of articles is to construct an updated picture of languages and language policy in and around Afghanistan, and give potentia

This book examines language contact and shift in Nepal, a multilingual context where language attitudes and policies often reflect the complex socio-cultural an