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The Story of English in India

Author : N. Krishnaswamy
Publisher : Foundation Books
ISBN 13 : 9788175963122
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book The Story of English in India written by N. Krishnaswamy and published by Foundation Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With globalization, English has become an economic necessity and Indians have realized that they have the 'English advantage' over many other countries like China and Japan. India has shed its colonial complexes towards English and has come to terms with the language; Indians have separated the English language from the English. The Story of English in India presents historical facts in a socio-cultural framework. The book is a must for all teachers and students of English; it will be useful for all those interested in the politics of language and education in India. Key issues discussed: - Are we indebted to the British for introducing English in India? - What was the role of English during India's struggle for freedom? - Has English united India? - Has English divided India into two - the English knowing classes who govern and the non-English knowing masses who are governed? - Will English ever become an Indian tongue spoken in the great Indian language bazaar? - What will be the future of major Indian languages in the wake of the English onslaught? Will it end in linguistic imperialism and cultural colonialism?

An English Made in India

Author : Kalpana Mohan
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789388292870
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book An English Made in India written by Kalpana Mohan and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2019 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the English used by a large percentage of Indians; the growing importance of Indian English in a world of many Englishes; the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King's English and those who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English; the effect of the IT boom on global English; and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards a language introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.

Language Education

Author : Nishevita Jayendran
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000412415
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Language Education written by Nishevita Jayendran and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • The book focuses on the teaching of English language and current studies in the pedagogy of language in Indian schools • It discusses issues of (second) language acquisition and learning, ELT studies, literacy studies and critical pedagogies in language and literature. • Will be of interest to teachers of secondary and higher secondary schools, teacher educators, curriculum designers and developers of language, teacher education institutions, departments of education and those working in the areas of language education and literacy across US and UK

Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky

Author : Chaise LaDousa
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 178238233X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky written by Chaise LaDousa and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of "medium," the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.

English Language in India

Author : Jaskiran Bedi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000586847
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book English Language in India written by Jaskiran Bedi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between the English language and growth – economic and inclusive – in India. It explores why English continues to be the language of aspiration long after Independence. With the second largest English-speaking population in the world today, India is testimonial to how a linguistic legacy continues to cast a long shadow on its contemporary discourse in the economic arena. The volume: Explores how English language proficiency constitutes as human capital. Draws in the latest India Human Development Survey data. Investigates the relationship between the language and economic indicators such as wages, household income and state growth. Purther investigates the role of English language in the inclusivity of growth. Provides a snapshot of the pedagogy of English in the Indian education system. First of its kind in scope, this volume will be of great interest to scholars of economics, education, sociolinguistics, development studies, politics and sociology. It will also be of great interest to the general reader.

Vernacular English

Author : Akshya Saxena
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223149
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Vernacular English written by Akshya Saxena and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How English has become a language of the people in India—one that enables the state but also empowers protests against it Against a groundswell of critiques of global English, Vernacular English argues that literary studies are yet to confront the true political import of the English language in the world today. A comparative study of three centuries of English literature and media in India, this original and provocative book tells the story of English in India as a tale not of imperial coercion, but of a people’s language in a postcolonial democracy. Focusing on experiences of hearing, touching, remembering, speaking, and seeing English, Akshya Saxena delves into a previously unexplored body of texts from English and Hindi literature, law, film, visual art, and public protests. She reveals little-known debates and practices that have shaped the meanings of English in India and the Anglophone world, including the overlooked history of the legislation of English in India. She also calls attention to how low castes and minority ethnic groups have routinely used this elite language to protest the Indian state. Challenging prevailing conceptions of English as a vernacular and global lingua franca, Vernacular English does nothing less than reimagine what a language is and the categories used to analyze it.

Varieties of English

Author : Alexander Bergs
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110523043
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of English written by Alexander Bergs and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is one of the first detailed expositions of the history of different varieties of English. It explores language variation and varieties of English from an historical perspective, covering theoretical topics such as diffusion and supraregionalization as well as concrete descriptions of the internal and external historical developments of more than a dozen varieties of English including American English, African American Vernacular English, Received Pronunciation, Estuary English, and English in Canada, Africa, India, Wales, among many others.

Indian English

Author : Sailaja Pingali
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748631259
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Indian English written by Sailaja Pingali and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. The complex nature of Indian English, which is not really a monolithic entity, is discussed in this book. The book also makes a distinction between what are considered to be standard and non-standard varieties, and provides an overview of the salient features. Indian English includes: * A discussion of the sociolinguistic and cultural factors* The history of the establishment of English in India, bringing it up to modern times* A description of the linguistic aspects: phonetics and phonology, lexical, discourse and morphosyntactic features* Samples of written English from a range of contexts* Samples of speech* An annotated bibliography divided according to topic.

Writing India, Writing English

Author : G. J. V. Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317809122
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Writing India, Writing English written by G. J. V. Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book look at the interaction between English and other Indian languages and focus on the pressure of languages on writers and on each other. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book deals with the pressure that English language has exerted, and continues to exert, in India and our ideas of connectedness as a nation in the ways in which we deal with this pressure. The essays emphasise on the emergence of the hybrid language in the Tamil cultural world because of the presence of English (and Hindi); on the politics of ‘anthologisation’; and how Karnad’s Tughlaq deals with the idea of the nation, looking at its historical location. The second part of the book focuses on Indian English literature and deals with how it interacts with the idea of representing the Indian nation, sometimes obsessively, seen both in poetry and novels. The book argues that the writer’s location is crucial to the world of imagination, whether in the novel, poetry or drama. The world is inflected by the location of the author, and the struggle between the language dominant in that location and English is part of the creative tension that provides energy and uniqueness to writing.

English Education in India, 1715-1835

Author : Rajesh Kochhar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000169359
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book English Education in India, 1715-1835 written by Rajesh Kochhar and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India. The first schools in India were the charity schools, asylums and orphanages opened under the auspices of the Church of England for religious instruction, training and care of ‘half-caste’ or mixed-race children, the progeny of Protestant fathers from Indian women. It examines the influence of the ‘half-caste’ community and the missionaries on the growing Indian demand for English education and opportunities for employment. The well-entrenched scenarios on the pre-history of Hindoo College Calcutta are re-examined in the light of new evidence discussed here for the first time. The book further analyses the shifts in the educational policies by the British colonial administrators and the interventions by the likes of Trevelyan, Macaulay and Bentinck. Detailed and insightful, this volume will be of great interest to students and researchers of history, literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, colonial expansion, and South Asian studies.

Problematizing English in India

Author : R K Agnihotri
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problematizing English in India written by R K Agnihotri and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 1997-09-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modified and enlarged version of the project report "English in India: Sociolinguistic and Social Psychological Perspectives (A Pilot Study)" submitted to the British Council, New Delhi in March 1995. A random sample of 1,128 informants from different capital cities and age groups, as well as in-depth interviews with 73 professionals, educators, and politicians were used to determine the status, role and function of English from the time it was introduced in India; to present a profile of the needs, attitudes, and motivation of its users; and to examine how young people visualize the space of English in tomorrow's India. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

English in India, Issues and Problems

Author : Kapil Kapoor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book English in India, Issues and Problems written by Kapil Kapoor and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English in India

Author : Heinrich Mario Nink
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3640180917
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book English in India written by Heinrich Mario Nink and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Trier, course: English in South and Southeast Asia, 22 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: India is the second largest country in the world, concerning the number of inhabitants. 1.2 billion people are living on an area about 10 times larger than Germany. The country has a long, sometimes violent history with many ups and downs and many different ethnic groups trying to conquer the country. Right now, it has the status of a so called take-off country and is considered to become one of the most leading nations in the world, economically as well as politically, in near future. But even though the country is on the road to a better future, there are still many problems that have to be solved. Of course there are problems like poverty, environmental issues and so on. But one problem in India is the fact that the country itself is not unified, many different ethnic groups are living there and over 500 different languages are spoken. One of the many languages spoken is English. Almost every Indian gets in contact with English at one point of his live. It is the medium of instruction in most of the schools as well in universities. And in order to get an occupation, for example in the civil service in India, one has to master English, alongside with Hindi and another regional language as well. Over the last 200 years, it has been established as a lingua franca in India, a language that unites a country where 500 different languages are spoken. But how important is English in India, and what is its history and status? Also it has to considered, whether Indian English has become an own variety of English. It is, as mentioned, being used and spoken in India for over two centuries now and certain features, in written as well as in spoken language, developed in the course of time. Some of them are obvious to the native speaker, others not. Some might even sound or look rather comical to someone not familiar with the features of this variety. But what are those features and by whom are they used? Another question that also arises is how, where and by whom English is used. Is it a language of the common people, the poor classes, or is it a language used only by a small group of people and who might those people be?

Indian English

Author : Raja Ram Mehrotra
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027275548
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Indian English written by Raja Ram Mehrotra and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian English, or rather, the forms of English used in India, have long been a topic of interest for laymen and scholars. For generations, the ‘exotic’ nature of the transplanted language was commented on, often ridiculed as a matter of unintentional comic. It was only from the 1960s onwards that the local forms of English were recognized for what they are — adaptations of the world language to local needs, and varying to an enormous degree, depending on the speakers’ (and writers’) education and the uses they make of the language. This acknowledgement came mainly from abroad (and still does); Indians are much less willing to admit to the variation and its communicative functions in the country. Therefore, standard English (if possible in its classical British form) is generally favoured, together with formal written uses often based on the stylistic models provided by English literature from Shakespeare to Dickens. R.R. Mehrotra was one of the first to see the need for a proper sociolinguistic description of the Indian situation, and the forms and functions of English in this complex set-up. He has for a long time collected and analysed the huge range of English around him, with the aim of publishing a collection of texts that reflects the variation within the country along various dimensions, historical, regional, ethnic, social and stylistic. The present collection of texts is typical in many ways, evoking in the content, style and grammatical forms the contexts in which English functions; notes help to put the excerpts into the proper frame to make them intelligible to outsiders.

This Divided Island

Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466878746
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book This Divided Island written by Samanth Subramanian and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samanth Subramanian has written about politics, culture, and history for the New York Times and the New Yorker. Now, Subramanian takes on a complex topic that touched millions of lives in This Divided Island. In the summer of 2009, the leader of the dreaded Tamil Tiger guerrillas was killed, bringing to an end the civil war in Sri Lanka. For nearly thirty years, the war's fingers had reached everywhere, leaving few places, and fewer people, untouched. What happens to the texture of life in a country that endures such bitter conflict? What happens to the country's soul? Subramanian gives us an extraordinary account of the Sri Lankan war and the lives it changed. Taking us to the ghosts of summers past, he tells the story of Sri Lanka today. Through travels and conversations, he examines how people reconcile themselves to violence, how the powerful become cruel, and how victory can be put to the task of reshaping memory and burying histories.

Hobson-Jobson

Author : Sir Henry Yule
Publisher : London : J. Murray
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 930 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Hobson-Jobson written by Sir Henry Yule and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1886 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Studies in India

Author : Banibrata Mahanta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811315256
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book English Studies in India written by Banibrata Mahanta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-03 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in this volume range from historical perspectives to classroom-specific pedagogies, from sociological and political hierarchies to the dynamics of intellectual development in the English language environment. Interrogating both policy and practice pertaining to English Studies in the context of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance, the chapters seek to formulate contemporary perspectives to these debates and envision alternative possibilities. Since the introduction of English to India more than 2 centuries ago, the language has transmuted the very fabric of Indian society, culture, history, literature and governance. The idea of India cannot be conceived in its entirety without taking into consideration the epistemological role that English has played in its formation. The present globalized world order has added dimensions to English Studies which are radically different from those of India’s colonial and postcolonial past. It is therefore imperative that the multitudinous shades and shadows of the discipline be re-examined with inputs drawn from the present context. This volume is for scholars and researchers of English literature and language studies, linguistics, and culture studies, and others interested in exploring new paradigms of engagement with the disciplinary formulation of English Studies in India.