In this article, Dr. H.P. Shukla, Professor of English Kumaun University, presents an overview of the English dominance over Indian’s domains. Departing from a brief commentary on the history of the English language in India, the author critically pinpoints how the impostition of English as a unique language happened to serve Englishmen’s purpose to profit from the exploitation of the Indian territory.
In view of the Indians’ assimilation of the English culture as to match the needs of belonging to a globalized world, Shukla proposes that the formers should neither abandon their traditions nor discard the Western trends. Rather, the author suggests a synthesis of both attitudes for he is concerned with the role of language in the configuration of Indian identity yet in a context in which one cannot escape the Western impositions, specially via the English language.
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