Children develop language skills in interaction with others and the ability to make references in culturally appropriate ways is strengthened through habitual conversations. The chapter focuses on social strategies of verbal referencing as a pointing device in everyday social interactions in a specific cultural context of multiple generation families living in Northern India. Using language socialisation theory, examples are provided from conversations in Indian homes to demonstrate culturally specific ways in which children are guided towards socially organised person-talk, quite distinct from the dominant model of family life in mainstream developmental psychology where face-to-face, direct and dyadic exchanges with young children is the norm, The issue of diversity in language use and the political overtones of cultural differences are also raised in defence of valuing difference and protecting people’s inalienable right to their native language/s, cultures and identities.