LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:6 June 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Who Is An Indian Writer?
Issues of Language in Indian Writing in English

Monika Yadav, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Indian English Literature

This paper takes up a debate that has grown steadily edgier since independence – the politics of language in Indian literary culture, specifically in relation to the respective claims of the Modern Indian language and English language, which must also be recognised as an Indian language. In the field of literature, Indian English literature refers to the body of work by Indian writers who write in English language and whose native or additional native language could be one of the numerous regional and indigenous languages of India. In the twentieth century, several Indian writers have distinguished themselves not only in traditional Indian languages, but also in English, a language inherited from the British. As a result of British colonisation, India has developed its own unique dialect of English known as Indian English.

Place of English in India

In the early days of British rule, English drama, poetry and novels had tremendously attracted the attention of the native Indian masses. If it was the language of colonial domination, it was also the language of anti-colonial resistance; our national leaders, including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and B. R. Ambedkar, employed it in the service of the freedom struggle. It is the country’s associate official language and the chief link language for not only international, but even inter-regional communication. Salman Rushdie’s Aurora Zogoiby (in The Moor’s Last Sigh) was not far wrong when he said, “Only English brings us together” (Litrarism, English writing 1).

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Monika Yadav, M. A., M. Phil.
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Maharishi Markandeshwar University
Mullana 133207 (Ambala)
Haryana
India
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