• Poonam Dahiya

The History of English language in India is as old as the beginning of the process of the establishment of the British Empire. Indian English, as we prefer to call it today is the result of the beginning and growth of bilingualism in Indian sub continent along with the beginning of colonization of the country by the British. The early serious efforts of contacts with the South Asia were started in the sixteenth Century. On December 31, 1600, Queen Elizabeth I granted a charter to a few merchants of the city of London giving them a monopoly of trade with India and the East. By the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the area was under the political domination of the British. Along with the British people, English language also started taking root. On the basis of a large number of surveys, the three distinct groups have been identified to introduce and spread bilingualism in India. The first group to have worked in the first phase comprises of the efforts of the missionaries who went to South Asia essentially for proselytizing purposes. The second included the efforts of a small group of Lankans and Indians who were fascinated by the progress of the west and desired to use the English Language as a vehicle for scientific and material progress. And finally it the was the political phase which firmly established English language in India and South Asia. Raja Ram Mohan Roy preferred English to Indian languages for academic, scientific and other international reasons.

"Phonological and Grammatical Deviations in English Used by RK Narayan in His Novels.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.170-178, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06027.pdf

"Phonological and Grammatical Deviations in English Used by RK Narayan in His Novels.", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp170-178, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBM06027.pdf