Books by Ian Hancock

Ian Hancock is Director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has been a professor of English, linguistics and Asian studies since 1972. He was born in Britain and descends on his father's side from Hungarian Romungre Romanies and on his mother's side from English Romanichal Gypsies. He has represented the Romani people at the United Nations and served as a member of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council under President Bill Clinton. Dileep Karanth is a lecturer at the Department of Physics, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Kenosha. Earlier in his student career, he had studied linguistics at the University of Texas, under Professor Hancock. With his background in Indic languages and Persian, Dr Karanth still continues to study the early development of Hindi-Urdu, and its implications for the Romani language.