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GN Devy

GN Devy’s writes in English, Marathi, and Gujarati. His books in English include After Amnesia (1992), In another Tongue (1992), Of Many Heroes (1997), Painted Words (2003), A Nomad Called Thief (2007), The Question of Silence (2016), A Crisis Within (2017), Countering Violence (2022), and Mahabharata: The Epic and the Nation (2022). He is the series editor of Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies and Mahatma Gandhi in Indian Languages. The People’s Linguistic Survey of India, initiated and led by him, covered 780 living languages of India. The Indians: Histories of a Civilisation (2023), co-edited with Tony Joseph and Ravi Korisettar, is his latest publication.