LibGuides: Hindi Language (Devanagari): Reference sources

Online reference resources

Oxford Reference Online
An authoritative and comprehensive reference collection combining access to in-depth scholarly resources offered by titles in the Oxford Companions series, together with quick reference coverage using over 120 key Oxford dictionaries and reference works.

South Asian Islamic Collection
The South Asian Islamic Languages Collections held in the British Library cover materials in all South Asian languages that are written in Perso-Arabic script. The collections provide a unique resource for those involved in South Asian research, particularly in the fields of history, politics, language, literature, Islam, law, education, anthropology, genealogy, geography, music, art and architecture.

Print reference resouces

English Heart, Hindi Heartland : the political life of literature in India by Rashmi Sadana
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Publication Date: 2012
The book illustrates how the notion of what is considered to be culturally and linguistically authentic not only obscures larger questions relating to caste, religious, and gender identities, but that the authenticity discourse itself is continually in flux.
Hindi by Yamuna Kachru
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Publication Date: 2006
This book presents the structure of Hindi keeping in view the sociolinguistic context of language use. It includes descriptions of sounds, devices of word formation, rules of phrase and sentence construction and conventions of language use in spoken and written texts incorporating the insights gained by application of recent linguistic theories.
The Hindi classical tradition : a Braj Bh-aṣ-a reader by Rubert Snell
Call Number: MENZIES PK1962 .S64 1991
Publication Date: 1991
Text in English and Hindi.
Hindi is our ground, English is our sky : education, language, and social class in contemporary India by Chaise LaDousa
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Publication Date: 2014
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities.
Hindi pronunciation & accents : geo-social applications of the natural phonetics & tonetics method by Luciano Canepari & Ghanshyam Sharma.
Call Number: MENZIES PK1939.C36 2017
Publication Date: 2017
It is part of LINCOM studies in phonetics series, covering phonetics and intonation.
Negotiating Languages: Urdu, Hindi, and the definition of modern South Asia by Walter Hakala
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Publication Date: 2016
Each chapter in this volume focuses on a key lexicographical work and its fateful political consequences. Recovering texts by overlooked and even denigrated authors, Negotiating Languages provides insight into the forces that turned intimate speech into a potent nationalist politics, intensifying the passions that partitioned the Indian subcontinent.
The Teaching and Acquisition of South Asian Languages by Vijay Gambhir (Editor)
Call Number: MENZIES PK1508.T37 1995
Publication Date: 1995
Includes many chapters relevant to Hindi language such as 'Decoding Meaning in a Second Language: Some Discourse Strategies in Hindi', 'Using Authentic Materials at the Beginning Levels - The Case of Hindi' and '"Learn Hindi-Urdu in Just Thirty Years?" Designing a Dictionary of Constructions for the Advanced Student'.
Tracing the Boundaries Between Hindi and Urdu by Christine Everaert
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Publication Date: 2010
This book provides an inside into the complex relationship between Hindi and Urdu. A comparison of 20th century short stories that were published in both Hindi and Urdu are used as a basis to define the boundaries between both languages. Print format available at MENZIES PK2042 .E94 2010 (Text + CD).