LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 17:3 March 2017
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.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
         Renuga Devi, Ph.D.
         Soibam Rebika Devi, M.Sc., Ph.D.
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Spread of English in the 21st Century India

Prof. B. Mallikarjun

In the post-independence India, a multilingual nation, English was expected to play the role of a ‘neutral language’ since no other Indian language was acceptable as a language for pan Indian communication. English was one of the fourteen languages in one of the draft of the Schedule of languages in the draft Constitution of India. Now, after the Constitution came into existence it is called as ‘Associate Official Language’ of the Union of India, but in reality, it is the de facto Official Language, since Hindi has failed to become the real Official Language of India. English is also the official language or the additional official language in eleven states and three union territories; however everywhere English continues to be used for most of the administrative purposes.

English version of the Constitution of India is the legal version, though the translations of the same are available in some of the major Indian languages. Though it was a Non-Scheduled language, the founding fathers of the Central Sahitya Akademi, because of their generosity and because of literary productions by Indian scholars in English, it was included in the list of recognised languages by the Akademi in 1954.

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Prof. B. Mallikarjun, M.A., Ph.D.
Former Professor and Director
Centre for Classical Kannada
Central University of Karnataka
Kalaburagi 585367
Karnataka
India
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