Roughly 35 million Indians speak and write some form of English

Evidence

Sarvepalli Gopal, “The English Language in India,” Encounter, 73 (July/Aug. 1989), 16, who estimates 35 million Indians “speak and write English of some type or other.” — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 966

Categorization

• SHARE: For anyone interested in the Indian English debate / language politics — a concrete mid-1980s figure anchoring how thin English penetration actually was in India’s population.