Investigating the communicative practices of indigenous Santali speakers in eastern India,
Nishaant Choksi examines the overlooked role of script in regional movements for autonomy …

Santhals are the third-largest tribal community in India with a population of nearly 6.5 million.
They are by far the largest tribal community in the Chhotanagpur region. However, despite …

Since the early twentieth century, numerous scripts were developed for Munda languages
such as Santali, Ho, Sora, and Mundari in eastern India. Unlike Brahmi or Persio-Arabic …

Certain combinations of languages and scripts have come to take on indexical properties
within the world of advertising in northern India. Such properties are regimented by what is …

Using different archives, I show how indigeneity was constructed by the Santal themselves
during the second half of the nineteenth century, through various figures such as rebels and …

In this essay, we reconsider the topic of “Linguistic Diversity in South Asia”—the title of the
landmark 1960 volume edited by Charles Ferguson and John Gumperz—from the …

Abstract Santali is an Austro-Asiatic language spoken throughout eastern India, Nepal, and
Bangladesh. It is currently written in multiple scripts, including a Roman script devised by …

With the rise of ethnic politics in Nepal, the Limbu (or: Yakthumba) have made increasing
use of the Limbu script, also known as Srijanga or Kiranti. Whereas in the past this script was …

This chapter introduces Language, Education, and Identity, a volume focused on the
concept of “medium of instruction” or “medium” in South Asia. The introduction begins by …

In this review, I discuss recent works that embody Monica Heller's (2017, 12) assertion that
anthropology is about “imagining alternative worlds.” In the first section,“Presence (s) …