English in India is stratified as a class boundary, not a neutral world vehicle

Evidence

In present-day India, surely, English occupies a much more contradictory space: as simultaneously a language for the producrion of knowledge , a means of connecting the country with currents around the world, both good and bad,. and as a line of demarcation, a cultural boundary between privilege and dispossession; for many among the literati, it i~ also the language of Raj nostalgia. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 893

Categorization

• XREF: English as a line between privilege and dispossession parallels the materialist reading purpose: discourse-dominated language ideology screening class structure. — connects to: English in India is simultaneously knowledge production, global connection, and class division — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 403; Language is a stratified multiplicity reflecting historico-social differences, not a unitary thing — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1250

Broader Connections

• Language is a stratified multiplicity reflecting historico-social differences, not a unitary thing #expands (0.80) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1250
• English in India is simultaneously knowledge production, global connection, and class division #qualifies (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 403