CONTENTS: Introduction by Deven M. Patel, 1. On the Methodology of Grammarians of Prakrits and of Pali by George Cardona, 2. Wave Dynamics and the Formation of Hindi-Urdu by Joshua H. Pien, 3. ‘Sporadic’ Sound Change in Hindi Phonology: Some Observations by Michael Shapiro, 4. Multilinguality and Redundant ‘Compounds’ by Rama Kant Agnihotri, 5. Hindi–Urdu’s Ghalib Construction: Paired Verbs in the Expression of Incapacity by Peter Edwin Hook, 6. Threat of English as a Killer Language by Surendra Gambhir, 7. The Culture and Politics of Coaching by Krishna Kumar, 8. Making Less-common Dictionaries Searchable Online: A Case History of a ‘Bottom-up’ Digital Humanities Project by Gil Ben-Herut, Notes on Editor and Contributors.