Authors:

Ranisha R, Dattatreya M

Abstract:

The postcolonial discourse on English language education since its inception is described as colonial import. It is reiterated as a colonial imposition that was imposed upon the native by dictatorial colonial rule and stands to pose a threat to the existence of indigenous languages. The pre-colonial set up with a society divided in castes/jatis was far from condemned in the traditionalists’ postcolonial discourse who linked the India’s clinging to the past as upholding nationalism. The colonial rule in India that proliferated literacy to the masses found little mention or rather neglected in the colonial historiography of India. The elite nationalists and the traditionalists valorised India’s past and referred back to the colonial era as an exploitative period. The paper discusses the discourse on English language education and its imperatives vis-à-vis the marginality in India. 

Keywords:

postcolonialism, education, language, marginality, Westernisation

Vol & Issue:

VOL.13, ISSUE No.4, December 2021