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