Colonial language legacies still govern which texts circulate.

Evidence

The most obvious example is the ‘Subcontinent,’ which contains millions of people reading in Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, and so on. The reason for this lacuna must be the British colonial heritage, which, perhaps surprisingly, helped make English even today the dominant language of ‘national level’ education and intellectual discourse. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 820

Categorization

• XREF: Direct antecedent for the Islamophobia scaffolding: colonial legacies structure what counts as legitimate national-level knowledge. — connects to: Colonial language can be repurposed into a new anticolonial literary language — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 284; Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on…, 667; Colonial political grammars shaped what agents could say, not necessarily think (+5 more)

Related

• Colonial English persists as an instrument of bourgeois state centralization. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonialism’s legacies persist long after colonial rule ends. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial intelligentsias are structurally compelled toward the colonizer’s language in public life (similarity 0.81)
• Decolonization produced a proliferation, not decline, of literature in colonial languages (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial language can be repurposed into a new anticolonial literary language (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial periodization privileged one textual canon per religious period (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial conquests powered the scientific comparative study of languages. (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial discourse variants are incommensurable scripts not reducible to one model (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial administration simply could not operate in its own imperial languages (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial nationalists copied and adapted European national models (similarity 0.80)
• English, not any Indian language, forms India’s only unified national literary intelligentsia. (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial script policies unexpectedly produced a unified anti-colonial national language. (similarity 0.79)
• English serves as the carrier medium of cultural and linguistic imperialism in globalization (similarity 0.79)
• Post-colonial state expansion deepened rather than reversed colonial language structures (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Colonial language can be repurposed into a new anticolonial literary language #expands (0.80) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 284
• Colonial infrastructure and language bans functioned as claims to permanent occupation #corroborates (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 619
• Colonial administrative language can become the lingua franca of anticolonial nationalism #expands (0.78) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 667
• Colonial political grammars shaped what agents could say, not necessarily think #expands (0.72)
• Colonial writers must renounce inherited forms to gain their own voice #contradicts (0.72) — Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, 278