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100			_a Ramanathan,Vaidehi
245			_aThe English-vernacular divide : _bpostcolonial language politics and practice _c Vaidehi Ramanathan.
260			_aClevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters _bOrient Longman _c©2005.,
300			_axii, 143 pages _c22cm
505			_tIntroduction : situating the vernacular in a divisive postcolonial landscape -- _tDivisive postcolonial ideologies, language policies, and social practices -- _tDivisive and divergent pedagogical tools for vernacular- and English-medium students -- _tThe divisive politics of tracking -- _tGulfs and bridges revisited : hybridity, nativization, and other loose ends -- _tThe divisive politics of divergent pedagogical practices at college level.
520			_a This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. The author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system
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