National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia

Javed Majeed is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK.Sara Marzagora is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Comparative Literature at King's College London, UK.

• 1. Introduction: Language, Multilingualism, and the Nation-State in the Global South – Towards a South-South Comparative Methodology.- 2. Managing and Reconciling Linguistic Diversity: The History of Language Policy Formulations in Ethiopia – Current Trends, Challenges, and Prospects.- 3. Bio-Cultural Belonging, Multilingualism, and Economic Liberalisation in India.- 4. The Contentious Path from Language to Land: The Movement for a Siraiki Province in Pakistan.- 5. The Monthly Panjābī and the Promotion of the Punjabi Language in Pakistan (1951–1960).- 6. Sovereignty and the Politics of Language in Early Twentieth-Century Ethiopia.- 7. Digital Publics and the Contested Politics of Language in the Somali Horn of Africa.- 8. Linguistic Alienation and Translation in Postcolonial India.- 9. An Alternative Vision of Multilingual India: Ari Gautier’s Indian Francophone Literature.- 10. Multilingualism in the Amharic Novel and Song.- 11. Managing a Multilingual Landscape: Periodicals, Language, and Frontier Identities in India’s North-Eastern State of Assam.