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Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
Chaise Ladousa
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Description for Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
Paperback. Demonstrates schools' division into Hindi and English in India allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation, and what is central peripheral. Signals how the language-medium division reverberates unequally and unevenly through the nation. Num Pages: 236 pages, 16 illustrations, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 2AB; 2BMH; CFB; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 180 x 15. Weight in Grams: 330.
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of medium, the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division ... Read more
A sea change has occurred in the Indian economy in the last three decades, spurring the desire to learn English. Most scholars and media venues have focused on English exclusively for its ties to processes of globalization and the rise of new employment opportunities. The pursuit of class mobility, however, involves Hindi as much as English in the vast Hindi-Belt of northern India. Schools are institutions on which class mobility depends, and they are divided by Hindi and English in the rubric of medium, the primary language of pedagogy. This book demonstrates that the school division ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332111
SKU
V9781785332111
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Ref
99-15
About Chaise Ladousa
Chaise LaDousa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. His publications include House Signs and Collegiate Fun: Sex, Race, and Faith in a College Town (Indiana University Press, 2011) and articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals such as American Ethnologist, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Journal of Pragmatics, and Language ... Read more
Reviews for Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky: Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India
[This book] is a much needed study of the situation in the field at root level... [it] allows the reader to grasp complexity of the language question that applies to the entire country by the author's focus on the complexity in one of India's urban centers. New Books Asia