TY - BOOK AU - Rajendra Singh ; AU - Lele, Jayant K. (Editor) AU - Dasgupta, Probal (Editor) TI - Explorations in Indian sociolinguistics T2 - Language and development (New Delhi, India), v. 2 SN - 0803992386 U1 - 306.440954 PY - 1995/// CY - New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, CA : PB - Sage Publications, KW - Sociolinguistics -- India. KW - Sociolinguistics -- South Asia. KW - India -- Languages -- Political aspects. KW - South Asia -- Languages -- Political aspects. KW - South Asia -- Languages -- Variation. KW - Language and languages -- Political aspects. KW - Language and languages -- Variation. KW - Sociolinguistics. KW - India. KW - South Asia N1 - Includes Index; Foreword - Udaya Narayana SinghIntroduction - Rajendra Singh, Probal Dasgupta and Jayant K LeleThe Autonomy of Phonological Variables - Rajendra Singh and Alan Ford Schwa Deletion in Hindi and Other Objects of WonderThe Autonomy of Social Variables - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K Lele The Indian Evidence RevisitedModern Hindustani and Formal and Social Aspects of Language Contact - Rajendra SinghCommunication in a Multilingual Society - Rajendra Singh, Jayant K Lele and Gita Martohardjono Some Missed OpportunitiesLanguage, Power and Cross-Sex Communication Strategies in Hindi and Indian English Revisited - Rajendra Singh and Jayant K LeleWe, They and Us - Rajendra Singh A Note on Code-Switching and Stratification in North IndiaOn the Sociolinguistics of English in India - Probal DasguptaSanskrit and Indian English - Probal Dasgupta Some Linguistic ConsiderationsThe Image of Sanskrit - Probal Dasgupta Structuralism and its Brahminical AntecedentsReview of Gumperz, Language and Social Identity - Rajendra Singh and Gita MartohardjonoReview of Bhatia, A History of the Hindi Grammatical Tradition - Rajendra Singh ER -