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book: English Linguistic Imperialism from Below
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English Linguistic Imperialism from Below

Moral Aspiration and Social Mobility
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2022

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The book shows how English has been newly constituted as a dominant language in post-market reform India. Political economic transitions experienced as radical social mobility fuelled intense non-elite desire for English schooling. Rather than English schooling leading to social mobility, new experiences of mobility necessitated English schooling.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

    v
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    Figures and Tables

    vii
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    Acknowledgments

    ix
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    Series Editors’ Preface

    xi
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    1 Moral Aspiration

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    2 Development and its Afterlives

    19
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    3 Temporal Migrations

    38
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    4 Social Lives of Rote

    59
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    5 Scripted Lives of Communication

    85
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    6 Obsessive Hope

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    7 Mandated Resistance

    125
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    8 Rote to Interaction

    149
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    9 Conclusion: Linguistic Imperialism from Below

    172
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    References

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    Index

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May 23, 2022
eBook ISBN:
9781788929158
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https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788929158
eBook ISBN: 9781788929158
Keywords for this book
Educational strategies & policy; India; LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING (OTHER THAN ELT)
Audience(s) for this book
For universities and colleges of further and higher education
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