This volume is a collection of scholarly papers that explore the complex issues concerning English Studies in the present Indian context. The discussions in thi

This book examines the status of English Studies in India, aspirations pinned on the subject by students, teachers, policy-makers and society in general, and ho

• The book focuses on the teaching of English language and current studies in the pedagogy of language in Indian schools • It discusses issues of (second) l

English literature is studied, at some stage or other, by almost every middle and upper-class person in India. Its importance as a discipline, or as a body of t

Right from its formal introduction in India in 1835, through Thomas B. Macaulay’s Minute, English has been intrinsically linked with the employment prospects