Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History

Shreesh Chaudhary

doi:10.1017/UPO9788175968493

India's natural wealth, knowledge, arts and crafts have attracted foreigners throughout its long history. It has had continuous cultural contact and trade with other countries and, in all this, India has been exposed to many foreign languages such as Arabic, Bactrian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in a certain sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages went through a cycle, rising to the position of power and prestige, and eventually declining and yielding place to yet another language. In this process, all these languages interacted with the native languages of India and exchanged sounds, words, sentences, idioms and expressions, sometimes even giving birth to new languages. Foreigners and Foreign Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History tells the story of this long and continuous history of the advent, learning, use, demise and debris of some foreign languages in India.

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1 - Introduction
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2 - Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit
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3 - Arabic, Persian and Turkish
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4 - Armenian, Portuguese, Dutch and French
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5 - East India Company and The Indian Languages
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6 - East India Company and The English Language
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7 - Conclusion
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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

List of Annexes
pp vi-vi

Notation Used for Transcribing Non-English Words, Names, Etc.
pp vii-vii

Foreword
pp viii-viii

Preface
pp ix-x

Acknowledgements
pp xi-xiv

1 - Introduction
pp 1-55

2 - Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit
pp 56-129

3 - Arabic, Persian and Turkish
pp 130-235

4 - Armenian, Portuguese, Dutch and French
pp 236-303

5 - East India Company and The Indian Languages
pp 304-391

6 - East India Company and The English Language
pp 392-516

7 - Conclusion
pp 517-580

Index
pp 581-586

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