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A Death in Delhi: Modern Hindi Short Stories

The essays center around the two major themes of language teaching (questions of goals, curriculum, and methodology) and language planning (questions of national language, language standardization, medium of instruction, and script reform.) In neither of these areas has linguistics come up with any definitive kind of policy guidance or methodology. It is therefore all the more gratifying that the author demonstrates a pragmatic good sense that makes one glad the Government of India turned to him to direct the recently founded Central Institute of Indian Languages in Mysore, a research and extension institution responsible for the development of materials and methodology for the teaching of Indian languages to speakers of other Indian languages, as well as research into sociolinguistics, bilingualism, and other areas relevant to the status and development of Indian languages.