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Pachori, Satya S. 1990. The language policy of the East India Company and the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Language Problems and Language Planning 14 (2) : 104–118.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language dominance | language policy | language use | native speaker

Language as a subject

English, British | Languages, Indian

Place, Publisher

University of Texas

ISBN

0272-2690

Journal DOI

10.1075/lplp

Annotation

This article discusses the ambivalence in the language policy of the East India Company toward Indian languages, i.e. the opposed objectives of Indianization of British administration (as forwarded by W. Hastings) and Westernization of India.