Contents
Contents
Where do Language Policies come from?
Language policy study in the subcontinent.
Linguistic Culture and Language Policy in South Asia
Language in Ancient India
Diglossia
Diglossias of various types.
Language and Colonialism
Oriental Jones and the `discovery' of Sanskrit
Missionary activity on behalf of other Indian languages
The Macaulay Minute and the imposition of English
The (re)discovery of Tamil and other roots of tradition
Language Policy in Independent India
The Fatal Error: the Importation of the Soviet language policy model.
The Soviet Model
Discongruities between the Soviet Model and Indian circumstances
Three-language Formula.
Guarantees at the State and Regional Level.
Summary: Antiquity, Ubiquity, Orality, Diversity
Harold Schiffman
12/8/2000