Product Description
A provocative ethnography that reframes English as a social and political force shaping mobility in contemporary India.
- Investigates how English is redefined as a dominant language through post-reform India, driven by non-elites' ambitions and English Language Teaching experts' reforms.
- Centers on an ethnography of mothering at a low-fee private school and a neighboring state-funded school, revealing intimate routines and power dynamics.
- Shows that radical political-economic transitions fuel intense desire for English schooling, making mobility experiences propel demand rather than being driven by schooling alone.
- Documents how educators reshape language from a second to a first language, producing new hierarchies and broader—yet unequal—access to opportunity.
- Authored by Leya Mathew (Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University), offering a grounded, insider view of sociocultural change during liberalization.
Care/fit: Paperback edition; 208 pages.
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