Language Policy, Planning and Practice: A South Asian Perspective (eds) Mansoor, Sahiba; Tahir, Aliya and Meraj, Shaheen.

1. The proposed study is not a significant contribution to its field but is certainly usable. It does use some some original material and provides a survey of the English language in South Asia today.

2. It is a collection of papers of uneven quality. However, the only paper which, I feel, can be expanded further is the one on India. Indeed, there are so many better papers on India that in comparison with them this one looks rather less satisfactory than the other papers in this book.

3. The MS does not, at most places, have a readable style. It will, however, be read by specialists who read such works.

4. It will be bought and used only by some specialists on English Language Teaching and some language planning scholars. The general public would not be interested in this book.

5. I recommend first that the style of documentation be made consistent, uniform and in accordance with some manual of style (Chicago Manual of Style or some other). Names of authors should be checked for spellings. Editing should be done with more care.

6. Finally, if the Aga Khan University will buy enough copies to pay for the printing, then it can be published. However, if the book will not be paid for then, in my opinion, the OUP will suffer both a financial loss and suffer some adverse publicity on account of the less informed papers.