{"id":3614,"date":"2003-10-19T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/19\/2003-10-19-the-english-language-and-india-s-social-structure\/"},"modified":"2003-10-19T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T12:00:00","slug":"2003-10-19-the-english-language-and-india-s-social-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/10\/19\/2003-10-19-the-english-language-and-india-s-social-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"The English Language and India&#8217;s Social Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.sulekha.com\/expressions\/column.asp?cid=305803\">Source<\/a><\/P><P>INDIA, APRIL 22, 2003: This lengthy article written by Sankrant Sanu begins, &#8220;India, like many other former colonies, suffers from a class-system based on knowledge of the erstwhile colonial language, which in the case of India is English. This class system has manifested as a reference and social status given to people that spoke most like their masters, with a hierarchy starting from the &#8220;Queen&#8217;s English&#8221; to &#8220;Convent educated&#8221; to &#8220;Public school education&#8221; to &#8220;Fluent but accented English&#8221; to &#8220;broken English&#8221; to &#8220;lack of English.&#8221; The essay exams such issues as whether English is a must for higher studies and whether countries with a large number of English speakers are more affluent than those without. The author seeks to distinguish between the learning of English as a language for communication versus the use of English as a primary medium of instruction and a symbol for societal rank in a colonial society. The full article is available at &#8220;source&#8221; above.<BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SourceINDIA, APRIL 22, 2003: This lengthy article written by Sankrant Sanu begins, &#8220;India, like many other former colonies, suffers from,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}