India’s only unified literary intelligentsia works in English, not Indian languages

Evidence

The only national literary intelligentsia that exists in India today - an intelligentsia constituted as a distinct social stratum and dispersed in all parts of the country, which brings to bear upon its vocation and its work a shared body of knowledge, shared presumptions and a shared language of mutual exchangeis the one that is fairly well grounded in English; and the only literature that is taught through the length and breadth of the country is English literature - and that coo not in the shape mainly of what gets written in India but of what comes from elsewhere. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 1211

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: English, not any Indian language, forms India’s only unified national literary intelligentsia. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 534; Print culture in India developed primarily in indigenous languages, not English — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 517; English in India is simultaneously knowledge production, global connection, and class division — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Nations, Classes, Literatures, 403

Broader Connections

• English, not any Indian language, forms India’s only unified national literary intelligentsia. #corroborates (1.00) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 534
• English in India is simultaneously knowledge production, global connection, and class division #expands (0.75) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 403
• Print culture in India developed primarily in indigenous languages, not English #complicates (0.72) — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 517