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This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language
policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of
"self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic
fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for
administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel
development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and
journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned
and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a
theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a
colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the
events, policies and changes that led to the development and
churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a
testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a
modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was
a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any
in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary
India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on
language and education, from which the multiple discourses on
"self" and belonging in modern India emanated.
This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized
practices and policies under the rhetoric of 'inclusion', through
theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the
complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by
identifying the challenges to the idea of 'inclusion' illuminated
through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday
experiences of individuals. Higher education is imperative to
empowerment in socially stratified societies marred with deep
inequalities like India and many other multicultural countries.
Disputes over inclusion remains a critical feature in Indian higher
education sector, as it is viewed as facilitating access to
economic opportunities and providing vertical mobility for
individuals belonging to marginalized communities. Higher education
empowers, and expands individual horizons of thought and ideas of
freedom, dignity, equality, enabling individuals to participate
actively in the political-sociological discourses in democratic
polity. Therefore, policy makers, political theorists and
educationists have been examining the question of inclusion and
education as public-good. Contemporary India has witnessed an
unprecedented attack on academic freedom, free exchange of ideas
and expressions, challenging the very idea of inclusion and
inclusiveness.
This book is a systematic narrative, tracking the colonial language
policies and acts responsible for the creation of a sense of
"self-identity" and culminating in the evolution of nationalistic
fervor in colonial India. British policy on language for
administrative use and as a weapon to rule led to the parallel
development of Indian vernaculars: poets, novelists, writers and
journalists produced great and fascinating work that conditioned
and directed India's path to independence. The book presents a
theoretical proposition arguing that language as identity is a
colonial construct in India, and demonstrates this by tracing the
events, policies and changes that led to the development and
churning up of Indian national sentiments and attitudes. It is a
testimony of India's linguistic journey from a British colony to a
modern state. Demonstrating that language as basis of identity was
a colonial construct in modern India, the book asserts that any
in-depth understanding of identity and politics in contemporary
India remains incomplete without looking at colonial policies on
language and education, from which the multiple discourses on
"self" and belonging in modern India emanated.
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