An English Made in India: How a Foreign Language Became Local
- ISBN-10
- 9388292871
- ISBN-13
- 9789388292870
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2019
- Publisher
- Rupa Publications
- Author
- Kalpana Mohan
Description
The book is an entertaining narrative about the myriad Indianisms to be found in the English used by a large percentage of Indians; the growing importance of Indian English in a world of many Englishes; the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King's English and those who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English; the effect of the IT boom on global English; and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards a language introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.
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