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This book aims to understand how the language policies of various nation-states in Southeast Asia grapple with the challenge of modernity. The focus is on language policies as these are explicitly articulated either in the form of constitutions or public proclamations made by political leaders. The main interest is in the attempts by Southeast Asian nation-states to maintain and legitimize particular "nationalist imaginations" and such attempts are best seen in the kinds of explicit declarations made by agents of the state.