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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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Language, emotion, and politics in South India : the making of a mother tongue
What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence.
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Language politics under colonialism : caste, class and language pedagogy in Western India
This book attempts to capture the reconfiguration of the pre-modern power structure within colonialism, in the specific context of education and linguistic policies implemented by the colonial administration in Western India. The interrelationship existing between caste power, dominance, colonialism and their cultural implications has been a rather ignored subject in postcolonial theory; analysis of the interplay between primordial power structures like caste and colonial modernity has only r.
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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
Imperialism may be over, but the political, economic and
cultural subjugation of social life through English has only
intensified. This book demonstrates how English has been newly
constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India
through the fervent aspirations of non-elites and the zealous
reforms of English Language Teaching experts. The most recent
spread of English in India has been through low-fee private
schools, which are perceived as dubious yet efficient. The book is
an ethnography of mothering at one such low-fee private school and
its neighboring state-funded school. It demonstrates that political
economic transitions, experienced as radical social mobility,
fuelled intense desire for English schooling. Rather than English
schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility
necessitated English schooling. At the same time, experts have
responded to the unanticipated spread of English by transforming it
from a second language to a first language, and earlier hierarchies
have been produced anew as access to English democratized.
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