Language Policy and Education in India

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 Rao's 'Minute of Dissent' N. Venugopal 8. Modernisation of Languages: The Case of Premchand vis-a-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 Poet's Pedagogy: Rabindranath Tagore's 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