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Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky
Contents: - On mother and other tongues: language ideology, inequality, and contradiction. - Disparate markets: the uneven resonance of language-medium schooling in the nation. - Advertising in the periphery: modes of communication and the production of school value. - An alter voice: questioning the inevitability of the language-medium divide. - In and out of the classroom: a focus on English.
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Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education
This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and how these are addressed at the higher education level. It presents analytical background discussions of the history and policy environment, and offers open-ended, multi-faceted and multi-vocal accounts of particular aspects of contemporary Indian English Studies, including curriculum, pedagogy, research, employment, relation to Indian vernaculars and translation studies. Reconsidering English Studies in Indian Higher Education is an invaluable source for anyone interested in:
The relevant histories and higher education policies
Professional concerns, including employment, management, teaching and scholarly practices, and negotiations in terms of socio-cultural life
Student attitudes, experiences and aspirations
Management ethos and academic work in a comparative perspective, informed by the situation and debates in the United Kingdom and United States of America
The context of global English Studies and globalization
The book will be of primary interest to academic readers such as students, teachers and researchers in English Studies in India, Britain and wherever the discipline is pursued at higher education level
Suman Gupta is Professor and Chair in Literature and Cultural History at The Open University.
Richard Allen is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English at The Open University.
Subarno Chattarji is Associate Professor at the Department of English, University of Delhi.
Supriya Chaudhuri is Professor Emeritus at the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
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Languages and Nations
British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones at Calcutta in 1786-proposing that Sanskrit is related to Persian and languages of Europe-and the conceptualization of the Dravidian language family of South India by F.W. Ellis at Madras in 1816-the \"Dravidian proof,\" showing that the languages of South India are related to one another but are not derived from Sanskrit. These concepts are valid still today, centuries later. This book continues the examination Thomas R. Trautmann began inAryans and British India(1997). While the previous book focused on Calcutta and Jones, the current volume examines these developments from the vantage of Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras, and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at the College of Fort St. George, making use of the rich colonial record. Trautmann concludes by showing how elements of the Indian analysis of language have been folded into historical linguistics and continue in the present as unseen but nevertheless living elements of the modern.
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Textual Travels
This book presents a comprehensive account of the theory and practice of translation in India in combining both its functional and literary aspects. It explores how the cultural politics of globalization is played out most powerfully in the realm of popular culture, and especially the role of translation in its practical facets, ranging from the fields of literature and publishing to media and sports.
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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
This book offers a sociolinguistic analysis of 'low-fee private schooling'. It demonstrates that political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility have led to intense parental desire for (low-fee) private English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, social mobility necessitates English schooling.
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