Disclosure Statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.
Notes
1. R. Parthasarathy, ‘What is Your Good Name, Please?’, in Raja Ram Mehrotra (ed.), Indian English. Texts and Interpretation (Amsterdam/Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 1998), pp. 25–6.
2. Pingali Sailaja, Indian English (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2009), p. 90; and K.S. Yadurajan, Current English: A Guide for the User of English in India (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001).
3. Paroo Nihalani, R.K. Tongue and Priya Hosali, Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 91.
4. Twig, ‘Proceedings of the Wide-Awake Club’, in Bentley's Miscellany, Vol. 2 (1838), p. 361.
5. Elisabeth Scurfield and Song Lianyi, Beginner's Chinese (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002), p. 13.
6. Mahendra Caturvedī and Om Prakāś Gābā, A Practical Dictionary of Synonyms (Naī Dillī: Kitābghar Prakāśan, 2002), p. 97.
7. Khushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan (New York: Grove Press, 1956), p. 39.
8. Madan Gopā, Kullīyāt-i Premcand, Vol. 9 (Naʼī Dihlī: Qaumī Kaunsil barāʼe Furogẖ-i Urdū Zabān, 2000–05), pp. 9–18.
9. Rāmvilās Śarmā (ed.), Premacanda Racanāvalī, Vol. 11 (Dillī: Janavāṇī Prakāśana, 1996), pp. 40–6.
10. Madan Gopā, Kullīyāt-i Premcand, Vol. 11 (Naʼī Dihlī: Qaumī Kaunsil barāʼe Furogẖ-i Urdū Zabān, 2000–05), pp. 204–15.
11. Rāmvilās Śarmā (ed.), Premacanda Racanāvalī, Vol. 12 (Dillī: Janavāṇī Prakāśana, 1996), pp. 445–6.