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Braj B. Kachru (1932-2016) spent most of his career at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and served as Head of the Department of Linguistics (1968-79), Director of the Division of English as an International Language (1985-91) and Director of the University's Center for Advanced Study (1996-2000). He became the Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Illinois in 1992, and the Sir Edward Youde Memorial Fund Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University in 1998. He co-founded the International Association of World Englishes and the journal World Englishes, and authored or edited over a dozen books on World Englishes and Kashmiri.
Part I. World Englishes Today: 1. The agony and ecstasy
2. The second diaspora
3. Culture wars
4. Standards and codification
5. The power and politics
Part II. Context and Creativity: 6. The speaking tree
7. Creativity and literary canons
Part III. Past and Prejudice: 8. Liberation linguistics
9. Sacred linguistic cows
10. The paradigms of marginalization
Part IV. Ethical Issues and the ELT Empire: 11. Applying linguistics
12. Leaking paradigms
Part V. World Englishes and the Classroom: 13. Mythology in teaching
Part VI. Research Areas and Resources: 14. Research resources.