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Marathi Use and Identity in Higher Education in Urban Maharashtra

Jessica Chandras, Ph.D. Candidate

Introduction: Marathi in Higher Education?

Professor Bagh , a dynamic professor in the Sociology Department at a leading university in Pune, begins to lecture her Sociology of India class on the caste system.
Prof.: The other very interesting and atrocious kind of idea here is the whole notion of purity and pollution.

Students fall silent until she begins to translate what she has already stated from English into Marathi.
Prof.: Mhanje ha purna caste systemmadhye saglat, ummm.. saglat tras ahet. Saglat…uh… Aapan kay mhantat saglat he kay kay whatever, this whole notion of purity and pollution ki, um… um…
(In Marathi: Meaning that in the whole caste system all, ummm… there’s trouble in all of it, in all… uh…What do we say, in all of this whatever, this whole notion of purity and pollution that, um… um…)

I sit to the side of the small lecture hall and as I record her speaking I notice how some students begin to smile when she uses an accented Marathi. Professor Bagh is not a native Marathi speaker— a point which she soon reminds her students of. She begins to lose both her train of thought and the attention of the students as she struggles to find the correct words in Marathi.

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Jessica Chandras
Department of Anthropology
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052
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jessu1006@gwmail.gwu.edu

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