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Disparate markets: Language, nation, and education in North India

Author(s) -

LaDousa Chaise

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

american ethnologist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875

H-Index - 78

eISSN - 1548-1425

pISSN - 0094-0496

DOI - 10.1525/ae.2005.32.3.460

Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , ideology , quality (philosophy) , sociology , political science , political economy , economic growth , economics , linguistics , law , politics , epistemology , philosophy

In this article, I explore the ideological underpinnings of the Indian government's language policies in the school setting, and I investigate why they fail to be compelling to residents of Banaras, a city in North India. The multiple language markets that exist in India are incommensurate and subvert the government's language policies in multiple ways. By exploring the uneven quality of these markets, this article illustrates the especially complicated dilemmas in which postcolonial nation‐states are implicated.

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