Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates

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This book presents a history of English and development of language education in modern India. It explores the role of language in colonial attempts to establish hegemony, the play of power, and the anxieties in the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century India. The essays in the volume discuss language policy, debates and pedagogy as well as large. Cover Title Copyright CONTENTS Acknowledgements About the contributors Introduction PART I Language debates: the English encounter 1 Early English textbooks and language policies in India 2 The emergence and growth of colonial language policy and its clash with the linguistic agenda of the national movement 3 The language policy of the East India Company and its impact on education during British India rule PART II Language debates: the ‘vernaculars’ and English 4 Language, power and ideology: the changing contexts of bhasha in India 5 Subject language: preliminary notes on education around late-nineteenth-century Hyderabad state 6 Interminable anxieties: Odia language movement in colonial Odisha 7 Revisiting the ‘modern Telugu’ debate a century later: the pre- and post-history of Gurajada Appa Rao’s Minute of Dissent 8 Modernisation of languages: the case of Premchand vis-à-vis Hindi 9 Analysis and modernity: the language debate in the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad 10 ‘English education’ in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Indian fiction PART III Language debates: textbooks and teaching 11 First textbooks in English in India 12 Anglicized–Sankritized–vernacularized: translational politics of primer writing in colonial Bengal 13 ‘The poet’s pedagogy’: Rabindranath Tagore’s English primers 14 Language and education in nineteenth-century Odisha: some issues and perspectives 15 The quest for Sahitya: rise of literature in colonial Orissa 16 Multilingual education in India and the English-only myth 17 English studies in contemporary India: caste, class and power