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100 _aVenkatesh, Karthik
245 _a10 Indian Languages and How they Came to be
260 _bPenguin Random House India Private Limited.
_aGurugram, Haryana. India
_c2024
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520 _ahis book talks about ten Indian languages—of the thousand-odd languages spoken in India—and their evolution, transformation and development. These languages are: Tamil, Telugu, Brahui, Santali, Khasi, Kokborok, Manipuri, Marathi, Punjabi and Hindi Karthik Venkatesh traces the long and varied journeys of these languages through time, examining the cultural shifts and political and social influences that have shaped them. He provides a glimpse of their literature, tracks the growth of their scripts and identifies landmark moments that have preserved and reinvented these ten Indian languages.
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