Publisher's Synopsis
An entertaining narrative about the myriad 'Indianisms' which are to be found in the English used by a large percentage of Indians, this book examines the growing importance of Indian English in a world of many Englishes. The book examines the ongoing tussle between the elite who speak the King's English and those who speak in their mother tongue or mother-tongue-accented English. Author Kalpana Mohan also looks at the effect of the IT boom on global English and the changing attitudes of young Indians towards a language introduced by the Raj hundreds of years ago.
