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Census and mother tongue

Deccan Herald (reporting the Registrar General notification), Population enumeration during Census 2027 to be held from Jan 25 to Feb 28, self-enumeration from Jan 10 (2026). Link
Business Today, Census 2027: the full list of 40 questions (2026). Link
The Live Nagpur, Census 2027 dates: enumeration schedule and excluded states (2026). Link
Office of the Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India, C-16: Population by mother tongue, India, 2011 (statement and notes) (2018). Link
Jolad & Agarwal, SocArXiv, Mapping India's Language and Mother Tongue Diversity and its Exclusion in the Indian Census (2021). doi:10.31235/osf.io/sjxc6 being read
Prabhākara, Routledge, Census in Assam: The Question of the Mother Tongue (2020). doi:10.4324/9781003157298-5 being read

Simard, Dopierala & Thaut, Language Documentation and Description, Introducing the Sylheti language and its speakers, and the SOAS Sylheti project (2020). doi:10.25894/ldd83 being read
Bhattacharya & Dey, Ethnography, Vernacular bureaucracies and the discursive constitution of a Bengali region (2026). doi:10.1177/14661381261461389 being read
Das, University of Naples Federico II (doctoral thesis), A Comparative Study of Bangla and Sylheti Grammar (2017). doi:10.6093/unina/fedoa/11892 being read
Blackledge et al., Applied Linguistics 29, Contesting 'Language' as 'Heritage': Negotiation of Identities in Late Modernity (2008). doi:10.1093/applin/amn024 being read
SIL International, ISO 639-3 Registration Authority, ISO 639-3 code syl (Sylheti) (current). Link being read

Unicode Consortium, Syloti Nagri code chart, U+A800–U+A82F (current). Link
codepoints.net, Syloti Nagri block (introduced in Unicode 4.1, 2005) (current). Link
Unicode Technical Committee document register, Introduction to the Syloti Nagri script (L2/03-257) (2003). Link
Banglapedia, Sylheti Nagri (current). Link
Sylheti Translation and Research, The Siloṭi Nagri script (current). Link

Parliament Digital Library (eparlib), Proceedings of the Council of the Governor-General of India, 2 September 1874 (1874). Link
The Edinburgh Gazette, 6 April 1858, pp. 696–697, Despatch of Lt J. T. Sherer, Latoo, 19 December 1857 (1858). Link
Sribhumi district administration, Malegarh: Sepoy Mutiny (quoting Gait, History of Assam, and Tatwanidhi, Srihatter Itibritta) (current). Link
The Assam Tribune, Sribhumi pays tribute to 26 brave sepoys of 1857 Mutiny at Malegarh (2024). Link
Hossain, Modern Asian Studies 47, The Making and Unmaking of Assam-Bengal Borders and the Sylhet Referendum (2012). doi:10.1017/s0026749x1200056x being read
Bhattacharjee, South Asian History and Culture 3, 'We are with culture but without geography': locating Sylheti identity in contemporary India (2012). doi:10.1080/19472498.2012.664436 being read
Khan, Shankar & Shokeen, Contemporary South Asia, Language as a site of identities, opportunities and conflicts (2025). doi:10.1080/09584935.2025.2575162 being read
Frontier Weekly, vol. 48 no. 32, Remembering Barak Language Martyrs (2016). Link
The Daily Star, From the Archives: The valley of sacrifice (n.d.). Link

The Week (PTI), Assam's Karimganj district renamed as Sribhumi (2024). Link
Morung Express, Assam's Karimganj district renamed as Shribumi: CM Himanta Biswa Sarma (2024). Link
DD News (Land Ports Authority of India figures), Indian land ports drive trade valued at Rs 76,000 crore in 2023 (2024). Link
Hazarika et al., Environmental and Sustainability Indicators, Socio-ecological vulnerability to climate change among farmers in Son Beel (2025). doi:10.1016/j.indic.2025.100897 being read
Singha, Singh & Singh, Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources, Economic valuation of wetland products and services: Sone Beel (2024). doi:10.56042/ijnpr.v15i1.4483 being read