Hindi Is Our Ground, English Is Our Sky : : Education, Language, and Social Class in Contemporary India / / Chaise LaDousa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: LaDousa, Chaise,
• MitwirkendeR: Kumar, Krishna,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Foreword --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Transliteration Conventions --; Transcription Conventions --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. On Mother and Other Tongues: Language Ideology, Inequality, and Contradiction --; Chapter 2. Disparate Markets: The Uneven Resonance of Language-Medium Schooling in the Nation --; Chapter 3. Advertising in the Periphery: Modes of Communication and the Production of School Value --; Chapter 4. An Alter Voice: Questioning the Inevitability of the Language-Medium Divide --; Chapter 5. In and Out of the Classroom: A Focus on English --; Conclusion --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781782382331; 9783110998238
• DOI: 10.1515/9781782382331
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Chaise LaDousa.

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 allows for different visions of what it means to belong to the nation and what is central and peripheral in the nation. It also shows how the language-medium division reverberates unevenly and unequally through the nation, and that schools illustrate the tensions brought on by economic liberalization and middle-class status.