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  • 1 - How English Came to Asia

  • Andy Kirkpatrick, Griffith University, Queensland, Wang Lixun
  • Book:
    Is English an Asian Language?
    Published online:
    15 October 2020
    Print publication:
    29 October 2020, pp 12-29

  • Summary

    Chapter 1 will first provide an introduction to how English was introduced and then developed in India. The role of the East India Company and the influence of Macaulay’s famous 1835 Minute of Indian Education will be described. The current three-language policy will be reviewed and India’s continued thirst for English explained. The chapter then compares the development of English in India with its development in China and key stages of its adoption in China are reviewed. It will be pointed out that China now has more users of English than India. Chapter 1 will also provide a brief comparative account of how English developed in the ten nations of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and how it came to be ratified in the 2009 ASEAN Charter as the sole working language of the group.