The introduction and the eight chapters of this volume on Indian multilingualism, deal with the following topics: multilingualism in the West, especially in the UK and the US; a perspective on Indian multilingualism, based on census data; regional languages vis-à-vis English as instruction medium in higher education; literacy among India's tribals; educational multilingualism in India; psychological consequences of mother tongue maintenance and multilingualism in India; literacy in a multilingual context; multilingualism from a language planning perspective; and language and social identity.