Debates over medium of instruction showcase discursive identity construction, reproduction, and contestation by different social groups. Drawing on such debates in letters to the editor and internet?based newsgroup posts written by Bangladeshi English?medium (EM) and Bangla?medium (BM) educated writers, this article examines the construction of elite identity by the EM educated group. It illustrates how this group drew on changing discourses of elitism, language ideologies, and other identity resources to construct self?identity that emphasized the achievement of qualifications and attributes rather than unearned social privilege, and how the territorially bound elite identity was transformed into deterritorialized cosmopolitan identity in the process.