Praise for this book

This is much anticipated book that investigates a less explored area of rhetoric

and writing in a non-Western and indigenous context. Well-crafted arguments

from Dr. Marohang Limbu’s comprehensive research help build a strong and

compelling case to study indigenous identities from a thought-provoking

perspective.

– Yowei Kang, PhD, Assistant Professor

National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan

This is an important and ambitious work that crosses linguistic, cultural, and

geographic boundaries. In doing this transdisciplinary scholarship, Limbu

is making key contributions to indigenous and scholarly communities. In

bridging these areas, his scholarship informs work in writing and language

studies, cultural rhetorics, and globalization.

– Steven Fraiberg, PhD, Associate Professor

Michigan State University, USA

The book, based on the fieldwork in four countries (Nepal, India, UK, and

USA) across four continents, on the development of Sirijanga script and

Limbu culture and history promises to bring deep insights, relying on oral

history, archival and archeological research, and interviews, on how culture

and traditions of an indigenous people survived inhospitable political regimes

in Nepal and India, and how the community and network of activists across

contingents are working to preserve and expand it after the advent of open

political regimes in South Asia.

– Mahendra Lawoti, PhD, Professor

Western Michigan University, USA

Limbu’s groundbreaking book informs indigenous rhetorics and provides a

new methodology for ethnohistorical research. Scholars looking to understand

how to ground their research in indigenous contexts can employ his “delinking,

relinking and linking” methodology to connect with various populations.

Limbu’s historical uncovering of Himalayan Yakthung writing traditions,

oral history, and culture makes the case that global digital communities can

help span local, regional, and transnational contexts and inform indigenous

rhetorics in surprising new ways.

– Gustav Verhulsdonck, PhD, Assistant Professor

Central Michigan University, USA

Marohang Limbu has done a superb job at canvassing his own delinking,

relinking, and linking theory in Yakthung’s writing, rhetoric, and customary

traditions, and this book adds a milestone and becomes invaluable asset in the

history of Yakthung writing and rhetorics.

– Ambar J. Limbu, Associate Professor

Tribhuvan University, Nepal

This book is an extremely rich, immensely persuasive, and utterly compelling

piece of substantive Yakthung writing and rhetoric documentation, including

analyses and interpretations. It demonstrates the immense power of

Marohang’s delinking, relinking, and linking theory in the context of the 21st

century both in academic and popular cultures.

– Govinda B. Tumbahang, PhD, Former Governor

Region No. 1, Nepal

Marohang Limbu has explored Yakthung Indigenous historical cultural

artifacts, oral texts, and documents and analyzed and interpreted the way

they have never been done until the 21st century. This book will contribute a

lot and will add a milestone in the history of Himalayan Yakthung Indigenous

studies.

– Arjun Limbu, Associate Professor

Limbuwan Study Center, Nepal

Marohang Limbu’s book is judicious, informed, and incisive, inviting

the enthusiast into a serious of critical engagement with even the most

difficult selections while avoiding the simplistic categories that mar too

many anthologies. In this book, Limbu makes compelling arguments

on the exploration, interpretation, and documentation of Himalayan

Indigenous writing and rhetorics ever anybody has done to the ground

reality.