Contents The People’s Linguistic Survey of India The National Editorial Collective List of Volumes Acknowledgements Foreword A Nation Proud of Its Language Diversity: Chief Editor’s Introduction Contributors to the Volume Introduction- Divide and Rue: The English Language in India – T. Vijay Kumar PART I: ENGLISH IN INDIA 1. English in India: Origins and Early Contact Parimala Kulkarni 2. English as the Language of Administration, Knowledge, Freedom and Modernity Sachidananda Mohanty 3. English and the Indian Languages Debate K. Narayana Chandran 4. English Writing in India Shyamala A. Narayan 5. English Literature and Indian Literature Interface K. Narayana Chandran 6. English as a Language of Livelihood and as an Aspirational Language V.B. Tharakeshwar 7. English as the Medium of Instruction at School A. Giridhar Rao 8. English as Alienating Language vs. Empowering Language: Student Perceptions of English – a case study Mala Pandurang 9. English Journalism, Media and Films Nikhila H. 10. The Gender of English in India Rekha Pappu 11. English as a First Language in India E. Annamalai PART II: OTHER INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES 12. The Chinese Language in India D. P. Pattanayak 13. The French Language in India Edith Melo Furtado 14. German in India Amita Desai 15. The Japanese Language in India P. A. George 16. The Japanese Language in India: A Reflection Tomo Kawane 17. Korean in India Kim Do-young 18. The Portuguese Language in India Maria do Céu Barreto 19. Russian in India J. Prabhakar Rao and Sheetal Anand 20. Spanish in India Ranjeeva Ranjan Appendices I. Mother English (1854) II. Address, dated 11th December 1823, from Raja Rammohan Roy to Lord Amherst III. Minutes by the Hon’ble T. B. Macaulay, dated the 2nd February 1835 IV. Gandhi on the English Language V. Debates in the Constituent Assembly on the English language, Constituent Assembly of India Volume III, Friday the 2nd May, 1947 VI. Address by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh at Oxford University VII. Excerpts from interviews with Chandrabhan Prasad Index