East and south Asian perspectives on history, languages and literatures : a conversation

Abstract EN

In this conversation, the authors discuss their scholarly trajectories working on history, languages and literatures in their areas of expertise—North India in the case of one, and East Asia in the case of the other.

Their discussion covers multilingualism and the role of orality in North India, the role of written Chinese and its interaction with the vernaculars in East Asia, the importance of scripts and the history of books and writing