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 larger overarching questions such as identity, nationhood and sub-nationhood. The work also looks at the socio-cultural and economic factors that shaped the writing and publishing of textbooks, dictionaries and determined the direction of language teaching, specifically, of English language teaching.
Drawing on a variety of archival sources — policy documents, books, periodicals — this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of linguistics, language teaching, cultural studies and modern Indian history.
Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction. Part I: Language Debates:
The English Encounter
1. Early English Textbooks and Language Policies of
India Alok Mukherjee
2. The Emergence and Growth of Colonial Language Policy
and its Clash with the Linguistic Agenda of the National Movement Varoon
Bakshi
3. The language Policy of the East India Company and its Impact on
Education during British Rule Raj N. Bakshi Part II: Language Debates: The
Vernaculars and English
4. Language, Power and Ideology: the Changing
Context of Bhasha in India E. V. Ramakrishnan
5. Subject Language:
Preliminary Notes on Education around Late-19th Century Hyderabad State Asma
Rasheed
6. Interminable Anxieties: Odia Language Movement in Colonial Odisha
Subhendu Mund
7. Revisiting the Modern Telugu Debate a Century Later: The
Pre- and Post-History of Gurujada Appa Raos Minute of Dissent N. Venugopal
8. Modernisation of Languages: The Case of Premchand vis-à-vis Hindi Anand
Prakash
9. Analysis and Modernity: The Language Debate in The Bangiya Sahitya
Parishad Probal Dasgupta
10. English Education in Late Nineteenth and Early
Twentieth Century Indian Fiction T. Sriraman Part III: Language Debates:
Textbooks and Teachings
11. First Textbooks in English in India Shreesh
Chaudhary
12. Anglicized-Sankritized-Vernacularized: Translational Politics
of Primer Writing In Colonial Bengal Nandini Bhattacharya
13. The Poets
Pedagogy: Rabindranath Tagores English Primers Amrit Sen
14. Language and
Education in Nineteenth Century Odisha Ramesh Mallik and Sunita Mishra
15.
The Quest for Sahitya: Birth of Literature in Colonial Orissa Siddharth
Satpathy
16. Multilingual Education in India and the English Only Myth
Giridhar Rao
17. English Studies in Contemporary India: Caste, Class, and
Power Arun P. Mukherjee
M. Sridhar is former Professor, Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India and is currently Secretary of the Alladi Memorial Trust that renders educational, medical and legal help to the underprivileged. With experience of teaching English at higher secondary and research levels for more than two decades, he is now engaged in teaching school children. He has keen interest in multilingualism and linguistic creativity, and has published in the areas of language, English literature, comparative literature and literary theory.
Sunita Mishra is Professor, Centre for English Language Studies at the University of Hyderabad, India. She has published on communication skills, discourse analysis, English in India and English language education. Presently, she is working on the history of English language education in India and critical pedagogy.
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