• Preface


• Acknowledgements


• Notes on Transliteration and Orthography


• List of Figures


• List of Tables


• Chapter One: Introduction


• Chapter Two: Purism Across the Seas


• Chapter Three: Narratives of a Diaspora


• Chapter Four: A Heritage Language Industry


• Chapter Five: Inscribing the ?r


• Chapter Six: Navigating the Cosmopolis


• Chapter Seven: Conclusion


• Appendix


• Glossary


• References

Sonia N. Das is Assistant Professor of Linguistic Anthropology at New York University. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistic Anthropology from the University of Michigan and B.A. in Anthropology and B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, taught at a high school in Louisiana, and has published in top anthropology journals in French and English.

Linguistic Rivalries weaves together anthropological accounts of diaspora, nation, and empire to explore and analyze the multi-faceted processes of globalization.