व्यक्तिगत एवं संपर्क विवरण

शिक्षा एवं अकादमिक योग्यता (Education)

• 1.पीएचडी, स्कूल ऑफ़ ओरिएंटल एंड अफ़्रीकन स्टडीज़, यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ़ लंदन,1984 2. बी.ए. हिंदी, स्कूल ऑफ़ ओरिएंटल एंड अफ़्रीकन स्टडीज़, यूनिवर्सिटी ऑफ़ लंदन, 1974

प्रकाशन एवं शोध कार्य (Publications)

आपके अनेकानेक प्रकाशन हैं: (2000 से अब तक की सूची प्रस्तुत)

• 1.2014 Hindsight: a Reader in Hindi Autobiography. Delhi, Rajkamal.
• 2.2013 Bihārī: the seven hundred poems, Harvard University Press, Murty Classical Library of India.
• 3.2012 ‘Hindi poetry’, in Roland Greene, et al., (ed.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Princeton, PUP, pp.630-632.
• 4.2011 ‘Hindi: its threatened ecology and natural genius’, in Rupert Snell and Rita Kothari, eds, Chutnefying English: the phenomenon of Hindi-English codeswitching, pp. 22-36. (Delhi, Penguin.)
• 5.2011 (ed., with Rita Kothari) Chutnefying English: the phenomenon of Hindi-English code-switching. (Delhi, Penguin.)
• 6.2010 Hindi [German-medium edition of Teach Yourself Hindi.] (Berlin, Cornelsen Verlag.)
• 7.2010 ‘Levee lacks levity’, translation of Levī prāṇ-levī by Bhāratendu Hariścandra, in Shobna Nijhawan (ed.), Nationalism in the vernacular: Hindi, Urdu and the literature of Indian freedom. (Delhi: Permanent Black, 2010, pp. 279-82.)
• 8.2009 Preface to Banarasidas, Ardhakanathak: a half story, trans. Rohini Chowdhury. (Delhi: Penguin, pp. vii-xxii.)
• 9.2009 Extract from In the Afternoon of Time (1998) in Palash Krishna Mehrotra (ed.), Recess: the Penguin Book of Schooldays. (Delhi: Penguin, pp. 83-88.)
• 10.2008 ‘The Bachchan family’, extract from In the Afternoon of Time (1998), in The Non-Fiction Collection: Twenty Years of Penguin India. Vol. I. (Delhi: Penguin, pp. 64–75.)
• 11.2007 Hindi para principiantes [Spanish-medium version of Beginner’s Hindi 2003], (N.p. Herder, 2007.)
• 12.2007 Extract from In the Afternoon of Time (1998), in Arvind Krishna Mehrotra. ed., The Last Bungalow: Writings on Allahabad, (Delhi: Penguin, pp. 134-48.)
• 13.2007 (with Gopal Gandhi, trans.) Bāpū nah rahe – ab kyā hogā? Sevāgrām, 30 janvarī 1948 ke chah haftõ bād. / Gandhi Is Gone: What Now? A Discussion at Sevagram Six Weeks after 30 January 1948. (Delhi, Permanent Black.)
• 14.2005 Hindi conversation. (London: Hodder & Stoughton; ‘Teach Yourself’ series.)
• 15.2005 Guest editor of Special Issue of South Asia Research on Pre-Modern Hindi Literature; Vol. 25 No.1 (May 2005); ‘Introduction: the study of pre-modern Hindi literature’, pp. 5-11.
• 16.2005 ‘Confessions of a seventeenth-century Jain merchant: the Ardhakathānak of Banārasidās’; in South Asia Research Vol. 25 No.1 (May 2005), pp. 79-104.
• 17.2004 Hindi dictionary. (London: Hodder & Stoughton; ‘Teach Yourself’ series.)
• 18.2004 ‘Hamārī hindī kā kalyāṇ ho’, in Haṃs, 18:5 (December 2003), pp. 52-54.
• 19.2003 Beginner’s Hindi. (London: Hodder & Stoughton; ‘Teach Yourself’ series.)
• 20.2001 Harivansh Rai Bachchan: In the Afternoon of Time: an Autobiography [paperback edition, Delhi, Penguin; see 1998 for hardback details.]
• 21.2001 ‘Nirmala translated: Premchand’s Heroine in English Dress’ in Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing, Volume 1 nos. 3-4, pp. 307-17.
• 22.2000 Hindi (with S.C.R.Weightman); 2nd edition, completely revised [rewritten] by Rupert Snell. (London: Hodder & Stoughton; ‘Teach Yourself’ series.)
• 23.2000 Beginner’s Hindi Script. (London: Hodder & Stoughton; ‘Teach Yourself’ series.)
• 24.2000 ‘English voices for Hindi verses? Issues in translating pre-colonial poetry.’ In Comparative Criticism 22, pp. 133-156.
• 25.2000 ‘A Hindi poet from Allahabad: translating Harivansh Rai Bachchan’s autobiography’, Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 34, Part 2, pp. 427-448.

उल्लेखनीय गतिविधियाँ / सहभागिता (Activities)

सम्मान व पुरस्कार (Awards & Honours)

आपको अनेकानेक प्रतिष्ठित सम्मान प्राप्त हुए हैं: 1. भारत के राष्ट्रपति द्वारा राष्ट्रपति भवन में सर जॉर्ज ग्रिएरसन हिंदी सेवी सम्मान, नई देल्ली, 1997 2. हिंदी सेवी सम्मान, हिंदी समिति यू.के. लंदन, अगस्त 1997 3. अभिनंदन, 5वां विश्व हिंदी सम्मेलन, त्रिनिदाद, अप्रैल1996

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