Whose English Is It Anyway?

Abstract

Hie apparent paradox of a literature that stajtes itself to be more authentic when translated proceeds from this linguistic 'mirror-game' that characterizes the In do-Anglian writer. One needs to underline what is implied here by the "Indian ness" of the Westernized Indian intelligentsia: that "Western ization" does not in fact mean "de-Indianisation". The English language used by this intelligentsia, even if it is of fairly recent import, even if spoken only by a very small minority of the Indian