Question

The english language has acquired a privileged position in india. Write a article on it

Answer 1

India is a multicultural nation- multilingualism being a fraction of the range of its diversity. Although speakers of dozens of languages find a place in this country, the Constitution of India recognizes as far as18 languages. The literary production, not limiting itself to any one language, is created in every major tongue. But over the course of time, the category Indian Literature has come to mean literature produced only in the English language, whereas the literary output in other regional languages tend to occupy a secondary place, and hence, is the title of the present paper.

This paper looks on the issue of language which haunts the Indian literary scene with the focus being on English, how it came into being in India, what is the place of English in India, how it is no longer a foreign language and how English is no longer associated exclusively with England but is appropriated by the writers.

nglish Literature entered India with the Charter Act of 1813, according to which the responsibility of the education of the natives lay with the British empire. Macaulay’s Minute and the 1835 English Education Act of the Governor- General William Bentinck also called for the reforms in education. Through these factors, coupled with the acceptance of the English literature and language by the upper class Bengali intelligentsia, the study of English found its inroads in the Indian education system, which the British were clever enough to mask in terms of “benevolence” towards the natives.
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