Light & Learning

Linguistics

Achievements

Projects

Prof. S.P. Agarwal had successfully completed a  Major Research project on 'The Dictionary of Literary and Regional Awadhi'.

Mr. R. K. Rastogi had successfully completed a  Major Research project on 'Linguistic Study of Hindi as used in Administration'.

Prof. Usha Sinha had successfully completed a Major UGC research project on 'A Sociolinguistic Study of Bediya Tribe'.

In 2010, a Major UGC project titled “Revitalising Raji: An Endangered Language” was successfully completed by Prof. Kavita Rastogi.

Dr. Kavita Rastogi has received a grant in aid from ICSSR to work on the project “Talking Trilingual Dictionary of Raji: An Endangered Language” 2014-to 2016.

Dr. K. Srikumar has completed documenting  Darma, and Dr. Kavita Rastogi,   on Jad, the two endangered Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in Uttarakhand, under the HRD Scheme for Protection and Preservation of Endangered Languages (SPPEL) of the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore.

In 2018 Dr. Kavita Rastogi completed a year-long project entitled " Revitalizing Raji: A workshop series to reintroduce script and encourage its usage", funded by FEL Foundation for Endangered Languages, UK.( Ms. Madri Kakoti worked as co-Investigator) with SEL, Lucknow.