Titlebook: English Studies in India; Contemporary and Evo Banibrata Mahanta,Rajesh Babu Sharma Book 2019 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019 Engli

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English Studies in India: Reviewing Borders, Remapping the Terrain,a view to redefine the trajectory of English studies in the present Indian context. The second part of the chapter has critical glosses on the contributions to the volume and aims to acquaint the reader with issues that the volume takes up for discussion.

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Negotiating Between Languages and Cultures: English Studies Todaynce of African, Indian, Sri Lankan, Caribbean, Australian and Canadian voices. Interestingly English was the negotiating language, the fulcrum and site of these negotiations. It is right here that the future of English Studies in India lies.

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Spiritual Preaching in India: English as a Tool for Religious Propagationof ‘demand and supply’. Hence, what served as a medium of upliftment for the preachers of colonial era has shrunk into a mere TRP tool for the tele-evangelists in the postcolonial era. The paper attempts to explore the ideas of ‘religion’ and ‘religiosity’ focusing on the usage of English by the Indian preachers from different eras.

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Testing English Studies in India: Problems and Possibilitiesncluding the lack of competent teachers, the management of examination, the problematics of UGC NET and above all the quality of testing tools and many other issues are examined, and possible remedies are suggested to reorient not just the testing practices but the whole range of issues related with English studies.

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The Journey of English in India: Experiments, Contradictions and the Tribal / Dalit Questionrarchic issues like the varna system, the Dalit’s claim to social position and the tribal struggle, within various power structures, and the government responses to these questions with reference to the study of English as a language. The paper also analyses the possible fallouts of such a scenario.