Language of power or “fringe language”?: English in postcolonial India, 1946–1968
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DOI: 10.1515/ijsl-2017-0019
Abstract: Abstract India’s “official language controversy” spanned over two decades from 1946 to 1967, during which the proposal to replace English with Hindi met with resistance from various quarters. However, the inter-regional ethno-linguistic politics of India… read more here.
Keywords: language english; language power; power fringe; english postcolonial ... See more keywords