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Tribal folklore and oral tradition / Mahendra Kumar Mishra -- Oral literature of the Kondhs : certain aspects / B. Ramakrishna Reddy -- The world of the Birhor : continuity, change and loss / S. Imtiaz Hasnain, Farooq Ahmad Mir and Sangita Sarkar -- Orality and civility : explorations from an Adivasi perspective / Pradip Prabhu -- What shall we do with our 'unwritten endangered' languages? / Ramakant Agnihotri / A Bhuta named Babana / B.N. Patnaik -- Manifesto of the unwritten world : the curse of dialects / Udaya Narayana Singh -- Issues and challenges in the search of effective orthography for unwritten languages of North-East India / Umarani Pappuswamy -- Challenges of scripting Raji : an endangered language / Kavita Rastogi -- Bhili Bhasha ke Anuvad men Badha aur Bandhan (in Hindi) / Vasant Nirgune -- Least written languages of Manipur / Ch. Yashawanta Singh

Developing pedagogical material – interesting lessons, interesting lesson plans, grammar, grammar points, exercises etc. – is never an easy task, especially for a language like Hindi where preformulated resources are few. I developed these topic specific powerpoints presented here for instructional use in my class. As such, they have proved to be of immense use, acting as an ever developing "text," and for easy linkage on Blackboard as PDF files. Students have made good use of them inside as well as outside of the class. These powerpoints are presented here for fellow colleagues and Hindi learners for their instructional use, and for further development as they fine tune them for their particular needs. While the topics in question do have a grammar orientation to them, they are not the only "text" the instructor should use in class. They should be used in conjunction with the instructor's own creative lesson plan, supplementing material with these powerpoints where grammar and cultural points need to be highlighted. ; Asian Studies