Contents Acknowledgements (5) About the Editors (6) The Contributors (7) Editor’s Preface (11) Introduction (13) Part I: Language, Politics and Policy (15) 1. Bihar’s Language Policies: Recognition of Maithili as a Medium of Primary Education (16) M. K Jha 2. Hindi in Colonial Bihar: Politics of Language and the Colonial Project (26) Sabiha Hashmi Part II: Linguistic History and Linguistic Landscaping (43) 3. Magahi Through the Ages (44) C. L. Khatri 4. Transliteration and Code-Mixing: Prevailing Phenomena in Linguistic Ecology of Bihar (48) Nusrat Begum & Sweta Sinha 5. Linguistic Landscape of Bihar (52) Priyanka Shukla & Shailendra Kumar Singh 6. Variations in Bhojpuri: A Sociolinguistic Study (63) Tariq Khan & Manish Kumar Singh Part III: Socio-pragmatism, Gender and Communication Strategy (75) 7. Gendered Bihar: An Investigative Study at the Interface of Language-Gender-Power (76) Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha 8. Sex-related Taboo Words and Euphemistic strategies used by Bajjika Speakers: A Sociolinguistic Study (82) Muskaan 9. A Semasiological Sociopragmatic Investigation of Magahi Idioms: Towards Interfacing Language-Culture (93) Sweta Sinha 10. Bhojpuri Cinema: Issues of Small Cinema, Regionalism and Sub-nationalism (101) Nirmal Kumar 3 Part IV: Language, Contact and Grammar (107) 11. Non-Canonical Cases in Bihari Languages (108) Bornini Lahiri 12. A Corpus-based Study of Semantics of Bare Nominals in Magahi and Bhojpuri: The Case of Article-less Languages (116) Deepak Alok, Atul Kr. Ojha & Sriniket Mishra 13. Commonness of Verb Root in MBM Languages (128) Shailendra Kumar Singh 14. Language Contact and Syntactic Convergence: A Case Study of Aspects in Maithili (135) Abhinav Kumar Mishra & Amit Kr. Chandr ana 15. Mixed Transitivity in Bhojpuri Complex Predicates (139) Manish Kumar Singh Part V: Undivided Bihar, Mixed Language and Greater Region (149) 16. Kurmali: A Language of Undivided Bihar (150) Bornini Lahiri 17. Descriptive Study of Eastern Hindi: A Mixed Language (156) Ritesh Kumar, Bornini Lahiri & Deepak Alok 18. Indo- Aryan Tribal Languages: A Critical Sociolinguistic Study of Greater Eastern Region (167) S. S. Bhattacharya 19. Vanishing Identity of Migrants in Bihar: An Ethno- linguistic Sketch of Lathor Community (173) Ravina Toppo, Ratul Mahela, Nusrat Begum, Sandeep Kumar Sharma & Sweta Sinha 4.