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Is India throwing away its language resources?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Robert Phillipson and
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
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Abstract

An analysis with European implications of whether the expansion of English-medium education in India is restricting the evolution of Indian languages

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English Today , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1996, pp. 23 - 27
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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