Abstract
THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN INDIA shares at least two characteristics of its existence with the cow in India. The cow is held in reverence by many Indians who believe that its worship confers on its devotees--even on its superstitious devotees-the infinite wealth of the unseen world, the paraloka. The worship of the English language is similarly believed by many to confer on its devotees the nearly infinite riches of this world, the ihaloka. Secondly, the cow is in a state of perpetual decline in India; its average yield of milk is steadily going down. We worship the cow, but we do not think it absolutely necessary to look after it. However, we will not allow it to die in peace. The English language in India has been likewise steadily declining for a long while, but we are resolved to let it neither die nor flourish. It has a Shakespearian existence:
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