Imperialism may be over, but the political, economic and cultural
subjugation of social life through English has only intensified.
This book demonstrates how English has been newly constituted as a
dominant language in post-market reform India through the fervent
aspirations of non-elites and the zealous reforms of English
Language Teaching experts. The most recent spread of English in
India has been through low-fee private schools, which are perceived
as dubious yet efficient. The book is an ethnography of mothering
at one such low-fee private school and its neighboring state-funded
school. It demonstrates that political economic transitions,
experienced as radical social mobility, fuelled intense desire for
English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social
mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English
schooling. At the same time, experts have responded to the
unanticipated spread of English by transforming it from a second
language to a first language, and earlier hierarchies have been
produced anew as access to English democratized.
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