People's Linguistic Survey of India: Volume 29: Part II: The Languages of Uttar Pradesh

Contents: Foreword. Part I: Scheduled Languages. 1. Hindi. 2. Nepali. 3. Urdu. 4. Sindhi. Part II: Non-Scheduled Languages. 5. Awadhi. 6. Bagheli. 7. Baiswari Awadhi. 8. Bhojpuri. 9. Brajbhasha. 10. Bundeli. 11. Illahabadi. 12. Kannauji. 13. Kauravi. 14. Tharu. Part III: Other Languages. 15. Chamarmangata. 16. The Language of Mahavats. 17. The Language of Nats and Kanjars. 18. The World of Secret Tongues: The Languages of Nishads and Pandas. Appendix. Index.

Commonly referred to as the ‘Hindi heartland’, Uttar Pradesh is the most populous and the fourth largest state of India. Its linguistic tapestry is unique as it is home to not just Hindi and a host of other Scheduled and Non-Scheduled languages, but also to some secret tongues, devised purely to communicate within smaller communities by their members. This volume, People’s Linguistic Survey of India, The Languages of Uttar Pradesh (volume twenty-nine, part two) focusses on the majority as well as minority languages of the state: linguistic characteristics, grammatical features, folklore and vocabulary of various languages are discussed to give readers as broad a sense of the languages as possible.