PART ONE:INDO-ARYAN LANGUAGES 1
Sanskrit&by Thomas Burrow 3
Comparative Indo-Aryan&by Gordon H.Fairbanks 36
Middle Indo-Aryan&by Ernest Bender 46
Hindi&by Vladimir Miltner 55
Bibliographical Review of Bengali Studies&by Ksenija L.Cizikova and Charles A.Ferguson 85
Marathi&by Franklin C.Southworth 99
Gujarati&by Prabodh B.Pandit 105
Oriya and Assamese&by D.P.Pattanayak 122
Panjabi&by Kali Charan Bahl 153
Sindhi&by Lachman M.Khubchandani 201
Sinhalese&by M.W.Sugathapala De Silva 235
Napali and Pahari&by T.W.Clark 249
Urdu&by Masud Husain Khan 277
Kashmiri and Other Dardic Languages&by Braj B.Kachru 284
PART TWO:DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES 307
Comparative Dravidian Studies&by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti 309
The Non-Literary Dravidian Languages&by Murray B.Emeneau 334
Tamil&by Kamil V.Zvelebil 343
Malayalam&by Vadasery I.Subramoniam 372
Telugu&by Gerald Kelley 382
Kannada&by H.S.Biligiri 394
PART THREE:OTHER LANGUAGE FAMILIES 409
Munda and Non-Munda Austroasiatic Languages&by Norman H.Zide 411
The Tibeto-Burman Languages of South Asia&by Roy Andrew Miller 431
Iranian Languages&by D.N.MacKenzie 450
PART FOUR:LINGUISTICS AND RELATED FIELDS IN SOUTH ASIA 479
Pānini&by Louis Renou? 481
Sanskrit Philosophy of Language&by J.F.Staal 499
General Linguistics in South Asia&by Ashok R.Kelkar 532
Toward a Phonological Typology of the Indian Linguistic Area&by A.K.Ramanujan and Colin Masica 543
Official Language Problems and Policies in South Asia&by Jyotirindra Das Gupta 578
Sociolinguistics in South Asia&by John J.Gumperz 597
The Semantics of Kinship in South India and Ceylon&by Nur Yalman 607
English in South Asia&by Braj B.Kachru 627
Linguistic Studies in Pakistan&by Anwar S.Dil 679
Linguistics in Ceylon,(Ⅰ)&by D.E.Hettiaratchi 736
Linguistics in Ceylon,(Ⅱ):Tamil&by A.Sathasivam 752
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 760
INDEX OF LANGUAGES 771
INDEX OF NAMES 789