INDIAN ENGLISH

With its 14 competing linguistic traditions, India needs a link language, and English has some advantages over Hindi.

English is considered in some ways a neutral language. If Hindi is imposed in someone, it is somebody’s first language. Or if let’s say if another Indian language, or another African language is imposed on somebody, they have certain privileges, they are the native speakers.

English from that point of view, in the local context now, post-independence context, is neutral.