GLOBAL LANGUAGE ENGLISH: ITS IMPACT ON THE INDIAN SOCIETY

Abstract

English language has got a major role to play in the linguistic side of globalization and has slowly emerged to be the lingua franca of international relations. Easily intelligible and widely accepted, English today is spoken by more than 350 million people and is synonymous with development and opportunities. The linguistic globalization is not an internal language phenomenon but the result of a deliberate linguistic attitude, strictly guided by economic interests. English is now widely regarded as a major business language. More and more multinational companies are mandating English as their common corporate language. Now, with this sudden IT revolution in India, with this sector increasing its contribution to India’s GDP from 1.2% in 1998 to 7.7% in 2017, the significance of English language in our country has certainly increased, and due to valid reasons.Our paper briefly describes the importance of English as a language in our modern Indian society, and how, through the British colonization English was first intoduced to Indians. The contribution of English language in the progress of Indian society is truly unrequitable, and this paper sheds some light on how and why English came to be of such undeniable importance to the Modern Indian Education System.