Colonial English persists as an instrument of bourgeois state centralization.

Evidence

In so far as the metropolitan language- English in the case of Indiawas the chief cultural and communicational instrument for the centralization of the bourgeois state in the colonial period, the continued use of this instrument in the dominant systems of administration, education and communication is, among other things, an index of rhe .profoundalmost geneticcultural link between the colonial and post-colonial phases of the bourgeois state. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 293

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Ahmad’s broader materialist argument in this volume and to the strategic-essentialism critique the reader is tracing — the linguistic continuity of the state undercuts discourse-first accounts of decolonization. — connects to: Colonial-era language mislabeled radical change as reform; Colonial language legacies still govern which texts circulate. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 820; Democratization in non-Western states drives out colonial languages (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Post-colonial state expansion deepened rather than reversed colonial language structures #expands (0.88) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 117
• Colonial-era language mislabeled radical change as reform #corroborates (0.82)
• English serves as the carrier medium of cultural and linguistic imperialism in globalization #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 8384
• Modern language and state authority both arise from colonial-era representational technologies #corroborates (0.78)
• Colonial language legacies still govern which texts circulate. #exemplifies (0.75) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 820
• Democratization in non-Western states drives out colonial languages #contradicts (0.75)
• Colonial administrative languages emerged unplanned from pre-existing lingua francas before print capitalism spread them #contradicts (0.72) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 476