Language Policy and Education in India: Documents, Contexts and Debates

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Acknowledgements
About the contributors
Introduction
PART I Language debates: the English encounter
1 Early English textbooks and language policies in India
2 The emergence and growth of colonial language policy and its clash with the linguistic agenda of the national movement
3 The language policy of the East India Company and its impact on education during British India rule
PART II Language debates: the ‘vernaculars’ and English
4 Language, power and ideology: the changing contexts of bhasha in India
5 Subject language: preliminary notes on education around late-nineteenth-century Hyderabad state
6 Interminable anxieties: Odia language movement in colonial Odisha
7 Revisiting the ‘modern Telugu’ debate a century later: the pre- and post-history of Gurajada Appa Rao’s Minute of Dissent
8 Modernisation of languages: the case of Premchand vis-à-vis Hindi
9 Analysis and modernity: the language debate in the Bangiya Sahitya Parishad
10 ‘English education’ in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Indian fiction
PART III Language debates: textbooks and teaching
11 First textbooks in English in India
12 Anglicized–Sankritized–vernacularized: translational politics of primer writing in colonial Bengal
13 ‘The poet’s pedagogy’: Rabindranath Tagore’s English primers
14 Language and education in nineteenth-century Odisha: some issues and perspectives
15 The quest for Sahitya: rise of literature in colonial Orissa
16 Multilingual education in India and the English-only myth
17 English studies in contemporary India: caste, class and power