Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś obtained her doctorate and habilitation degrees in linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She has published several books and articles on various topics related to Hindi-Urdu linguistics, South-Asian sociolinguistics and Indo-Islamic traditions as well as numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu into Polish.

• Contents: Rahul Peter Das: Defining Hindi: An Introductory Overview – Heinz Werner Wessler: Hindi Revisited: Language and Language Policies in India in Perspective – Hans Harder: Traces of Sacredness in Imaginings of Hindi – Selma K. Sonntag: Depoliticising Hindi in India – Anvita Abbi/Maansi Sharma: Hindi as a Contact Language of Northeast India – Surendra K. Gambhir: Linguistic Relationships: Bhojpuri and Standard Hindi. A View from the Western Hemisphere – Anjali Gera Roy: Filmī Zubān. The Language of Hindi Cinema – Christina Oesterheld: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in the Metropolises: Visual (and Other) Impressions – Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś/Dagmara Gil: A Mixed Language? Hinglish and Business Hindi.

«In this collection of papers, not only is the current situation of “Hindi” comprehensively surveyed, but also its complexity elucidated in the light of the pastby considering its historical vicissitudes and cultural background.»(Makoto Kitada, Orientalistischen Literaturzeitung 112/2017)

Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś obtained her doctorate and habilitation degrees in linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She has published several books and articles on various topics related to Hindi-Urdu linguistics, South-Asian sociolinguistics and Indo-Islamic traditions as well as numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu into Polish.

• Contents: Rahul Peter Das: Defining Hindi: An Introductory Overview – Heinz Werner Wessler: Hindi Revisited: Language and Language Policies in India in Perspective – Hans Harder: Traces of Sacredness in Imaginings of Hindi – Selma K. Sonntag: Depoliticising Hindi in India – Anvita Abbi/Maansi Sharma: Hindi as a Contact Language of Northeast India – Surendra K. Gambhir: Linguistic Relationships: Bhojpuri and Standard Hindi. A View from the Western Hemisphere – Anjali Gera Roy: Filmī Zubān. The Language of Hindi Cinema – Christina Oesterheld: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in the Metropolises: Visual (and Other) Impressions – Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś/Dagmara Gil: A Mixed Language? Hinglish and Business Hindi.

«In this collection of papers, not only is the current situation of “Hindi” comprehensively surveyed, but also its complexity elucidated in the light of the pastby considering its historical vicissitudes and cultural background.»(Makoto Kitada, Orientalistischen Literaturzeitung 112/2017)

Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś obtained her doctorate and habilitation degrees in linguistics from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków (Poland). She has published several books and articles on various topics related to Hindi-Urdu linguistics, South-Asian sociolinguistics and Indo-Islamic traditions as well as numerous translations from Hindi and Urdu into Polish.

• Contents: Rahul Peter Das: Defining Hindi: An Introductory Overview – Heinz Werner Wessler: Hindi Revisited: Language and Language Policies in India in Perspective – Hans Harder: Traces of Sacredness in Imaginings of Hindi – Selma K. Sonntag: Depoliticising Hindi in India – Anvita Abbi/Maansi Sharma: Hindi as a Contact Language of Northeast India – Surendra K. Gambhir: Linguistic Relationships: Bhojpuri and Standard Hindi. A View from the Western Hemisphere – Anjali Gera Roy: Filmī Zubān. The Language of Hindi Cinema – Christina Oesterheld: Hindi/Urdu/Hindustani in the Metropolises: Visual (and Other) Impressions – Agnieszka Kuczkiewicz-Fraś/Dagmara Gil: A Mixed Language? Hinglish and Business Hindi.

«In this collection of papers, not only is the current situation of “Hindi” comprehensively surveyed, but also its complexity elucidated in the light of the pastby considering its historical vicissitudes and cultural background.»(Makoto Kitada, Orientalistischen Literaturzeitung 112/2017)