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Akshya Saxena is an assistant professor of English at Vanderbilt University.
Vernacular English examines how English has been made a language for the people of India. This is in contrast to the slew of criticisms of global English. It argues that literary studies have yet to address the political significance of English in the modern world. This provocative and original book compares three centuries worth of English literature and media in India. It tells the story not of imperial coercion but of a people using English in a postcolonial democracy. Akshya Saxena examines the experiences of hearing, touching and remembering English. She also explores previously unknown texts in English and Hindi literatures, law, film, visual arts, and public protests. She uncovers little-known debates, practices, and ideologies that have shaped English in India and the Anglophone World. This includes the forgotten history of English legislation in India. She also reveals how the Indian state has been protested by low castes and minorities using this elite language. Vernacular English challenges the prevailing notions of English language as a global and vernacular lingua Franca. It does not do anything less than to reimagine what language is and the categories that are used to analyze it.

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