This twelfth volume of the People’s Linguistic Survey of India attempts to document the languages of the State of Jammu & Kashmir. The book is divided into three parts—the first part covers the scheduled languages, Dogri and Kashmiri, the second part, the non-scheduled and minor languages and the third part is devoted to Sanskrit, Persian, Hindi and Urdu which have played an important role in the state and also influenced local languages. In the discussions about the languages, there is information about their contemporary status, their historical evolution and structural aspects.