India Flashcards
1
Q
Foundation
A
- British settlers arrive
- East India trading Company
2
Q
Exonormative Stabilization
A
- English parliament taking over
- Queen Victoria = Empress of India
- English = language of power and of the upper and upper-middle class
3
Q
Nativization
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- 1947 Independence
- people learn Hindi, another major regional language and English
- Hinglish (strong mixing Hindi + English)
4
Q
Endonormative Stabilization
A
- Inidanized forms are no longer negativly connotated
- literary creativity
- long tradition of writing in English
