LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 22:5 May 2022
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Anglicized Indian Culture –
An Analysis Based on Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss

J. Jaya Parveen, M.A., M.Phil., PGCTE (EFL), Ph.D. and
V. Rajesh, M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.)


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Kiran Desai's Inheritance of Loss manages to explore every contemporary international issue: globalization, multiculturalism, economic inequality, fundamentalism and terrorist violence (Mishra, 2006). Like Naipaul, Desai bears witness to the suffering of the poor and the powerless by holding up an unflinching mirror to their lives (Bilwakesh, 2009). Described as post-colonial diaspora literature, Kiran Desai’s Inheritance of Loss portrays the Anglicized Indian culture by depicting the lives of a few Indians with fractured Indian identities.

Justice Jemubhai Patel is from a small village Piphit. He is educated in the Bishop Cotton School. He admires the portrait of Queen Victoria at the entrance of the school building. She looks so plain but powerful. From that time, his respect for her and the English grows in leaps and bounds. He gets first mark in all the tests. His principal Mr. McCooe wants him to write the local pleader's exam. But his father insists him to become the chief justice.

After graduating from the Bishop’s college, Jemubhai goes to Cambridge for higher studies. He always carries an Oxford English Dictionary. He has a cabin mate from Calcutta. He often composes Latin sonnets in Catullan hendecasyllables. Bose, his friend, shows him what records to buy for his new gramophone. He always recommends Caruso and Gigli. He corrects Jemubhai's mistakes in English pronunciation: Jheelee, not Giggly, Yorksher, Edinburrah, Jane Aae, Jane Aiyer, etc. They both read a lot of textbooks like A Brief History of Western Art, A Brief History of Philosophy, A Brief History of France, etc.

While studying, he grows strange to others and himself. He finds his skin tanned and his accent very awkward. He forgets how to laugh or smile. Even if he smiles, he holds his hand over his mouth; he does not want anybody to look at his gums and teeth. Jemubhai takes revenge on his early confusions and embarrassments in the name of ‘keeping up standards.’ He wants to keep his accent behind the mask of silence. He works at ‘being English’ with fear and hatred, but he wants to maintain the false pride throughout his life by ignoring his real identity at all.

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J. Jaya Parveen, M.A., M.Phil., PGCTE (EFL), Ph.D.
Asst. Professor (English)
Chevalier T. Thomas Elizabeth (CTTE) College for Women, Chennai
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V. Rajesh, M.A., M.Phil., (Ph.D.)
Vice-Principal, Velammal Vidyalaya, Chennai
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