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Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky - Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India (Paperback)
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Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky - Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India (Paperback)
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A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three
decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and
media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to
processes of globalization and the rise of new employment
opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves
Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India.
Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they
are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of "medium," the
primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the
school division allows for different visions of what it means to
belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the
nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates
unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools
illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and
middle-class status.
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