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The ideology of language in school is interwoven with the ideology of education in society. Education planners in the contemporary South Asian context have, by and large, committed themselves to education for all without seriously questioning the elitist framework of education inherited from the colonial set up (prevailing till 1947).
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Khubchandani, L.M. (1997). Language Policy and Education in the Indian Subcontinent. In: Wodak, R., Corson, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4538-1_17
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