In the hope of making the book accessible to a nonspecialist audience, I have tried to de-Sanskritize it as far as posible. … For when castes rise in both status and power by Sanskritizing, texts fall in status but rise in (readership) power by de-Sanskritizing.

Their will the tiger sucked, outraged the storm

Sae Beatrice wis ready whan she wis cried on in the middle o the nicht tae halp the howdie. It wis a saicont bairn, an Derriakin wis muckle-boukit, sae the birth gaed quick.

I did not pull any punches when I told them my thoughts.