TONGUES SET FREE: Migration & Language in South Asia

SPEAKERS

Ganesh N Devy is Chief Editor of The People's Linguistic Survey of India, a unique multi-volume, multi-lingual survey of 780 living languages of India, and founder of Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda, India.

Christi Merrill is Professor of South Asian Literature & Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, and author of Genres of Real Life: Mediating Stories of Injustice across Languages (forthcoming).

Dr Peggy Mohan is Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, Sonepat, and author of Father Tongue, Motherland: The Birth of Languages in South Asia (2025).

Dr Nicholas Ostler is an independent researcher, Chairman of The Foundation for Endangered Languages (UK), and author most recently of Passwords to Paradise: How Languages Have Re-Invented World Religions (2016).

DISCUSSANT

Tej K Bhatia is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics & Director of South Asian Languages at Syracuse University, and Editor-in-Chief of Brill Research Perspectives in Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition.

CHAIR

Dr Nilanjan Sarkar is Deputy Director, LSE South Asia Centre.

This event is part of our 'Fact & Fiction' series.

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