G. N. Devy is the chief editor of the PLSI series. He taught at the Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, till 1996 before leaving to set up the Bhasha Research Centre in Baroda and the Adivasi Akademi at Tejgadh. There, he worked towards conserving and promoting the languages and culture of indigenous and nomadic communities. Apart from being awarded the Padma Shree, he has received many awards for his work in literature and language conservation.

T. Vijay Kumar, the Volume Editor, is a Professor of English at Osmania University, Hyderabad. In 2013, he designed and taught a course on the Indian Novel in English at The University of Utah. His publications include critical studies: Globalisation: Australian-Asian Perspectives (co-ed; 2014) and Focus India: Postcolonial Narratives of the Nation (co-ed; 2007), and translations from Telugu into English: Volga’s Vimukta as The Liberation of Sita (co-trans; 2016) and Gurajada Venkata Appa Rao’s early-20th century classic Kanyasulkam (co-trans; 2002).  He is one of the Directors of the annual Hyderabad Literary Festival.

The People’s Linguistic Survey of India
The National Editorial Collective
List of Volumes
Acknowledgements
Foreword
A Nation Proud of Its Language Diversity: Chief Editor’s Introduction
Contributors to the Volume

Introduction- Divide and Rue: The English Language in India – T. Vijay Kumar

PART I: ENGLISH IN INDIA

1. English in India: Origins and Early Contact
Parimala Kulkarni

2. English as the Language of Administration, Knowledge, Freedom and
Modernity
Sachidananda Mohanty

3. English and the Indian Languages Debate
K. Narayana Chandran

4. English Writing in India
Shyamala A. Narayan

5. English Literature and Indian Literature Interface
K. Narayana Chandran

6. English as a Language of Livelihood and as an Aspirational Language
V.B. Tharakeshwar

7. English as the Medium of Instruction at School
A. Giridhar Rao

8. English as Alienating Language vs. Empowering Language: Student
Perceptions of English – a case study
Mala Pandurang

9. English Journalism, Media and Films
Nikhila H.

10. The Gender of English in India
Rekha Pappu

11. English as a First Language in India
E. Annamalai

PART II: OTHER INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

12. The Chinese Language in India
D. P. Pattanayak

13. The French Language in India
Edith Melo Furtado

14. German in India
Amita Desai

15. The Japanese Language in India
P. A. George

16. The Japanese Language in India: A Reflection
Tomo Kawane

17. Korean in India
Kim Do-young

18. The Portuguese Language in India
Maria do Céu Barreto

19. Russian in India
J. Prabhakar Rao and Sheetal Anand

20. Spanish in India
Ranjeeva Ranjan

Appendices
I. Mother English (1854)
II. Address, dated 11th December 1823, from Raja Rammohan Roy to Lord Amherst
III. Minutes by the Hon’ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835
IV. Gandhi on the English Language
V. Debates in the Constituent Assembly on the English language, Constituent
Assembly of India Volume III, Friday the 2nd May, 1947
VI. Address by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Oxford University
VII. Excerpts from interviews with Chandrabhan Prasad

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