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Indian English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Raj N. Bakshi
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Kachru (1965, 1966) has presented a detailed analysis of the idiosyncratic vocabulary items of Indian English (hereafter IE). He observes that “in India an idiom of English has developed which is Indian in the sense that there are formal and contextual exponents of Indianness in such writing, and the defining-context of such idiom is Indian setting” (1965:396). To illustrate how IE has become culture bound in India, he mentions many formations, such as confusion of caste, dung wash, saltgiver, rape-sister, etc., drawn from IE fiction, and calls them Indianisms.

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English Today , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , July 1991 , pp. 43 - 46
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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