Language Ideologies and the Vernacular in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia

This volume critically engages with recent formulations and debates regarding the status of the regional languages of the Indian subcontinent vis-à-vis English. It explores how language ideologies of the “vernacular” are positioned in relation to the language ideologies of English in South Asia.

The book probes into how we might move beyond the English-vernacular binary in India, explores what happ...