Abstract
This paper builds a case for English Studies today on the basis of a non-hierarchical and creative culture-language negotiation with English as the negotiating language and argues that English studies need to expand in its scope in this direction. This expansion had initially happened when we moved from British Literature studies to American Literature and Culture studies. The influx of African American, Native American, Hispanic, Chicano and Asian American voices from the margins to the mainstream brought the vitality of the raw, native and desi into the cooked, civilised and marga canons of the white European culture and languages, creatively fertilising the literary and cultural scenario. Similarly, in the Commonwealth canon, we find the emergence of African, Indian, Sri Lankan, Caribbean, Australian and Canadian voices. Interestingly English was the negotiating language, the fulcrum and site of these negotiations. It is right here that the future of English Studies in India lies.
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