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Synopsis This collection of eighteen essays articulates the structures of thought available in the Indian intellectual traditions in language, grammar and poetics. A whole range of issues relating to theory, pedagogy and analysis are taken up : the oral tradition and its texts, the structure of oral narratives, the limits of lexical meaning, the question of appropriate poetics, grammar as the primary model of knowledge and the epistemological status of metaphors are some of the issues that have considerable theoretical significance and contemporary relevance as well. The conceptual frames emerging from these structures of signification are shown to be interwoven with, and pertinent for, the actual English language teaching practices and the analyses of English literary Texts. This collection demonstrate the value of interactive scholarship particularly in the fields of language, literary theory and epistemology in which India has Known traditions of texts and thinkers. It thus, also constitutes an argument for re-locating modern Indian scholarship in its original roots — the classical Sanskrit tradition. At the same time, the essays in this collections establish the validity of applying Indian explanatory constructs for contemporary objects by demonstrating the ability of their analytical systems to explicate both the modern structures of signification and the Indian response to them.