.........................................................................................................................................................v LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................................................................. vii CHAPTER 1.INTRODUCTION: MEMORY, A FIELD OF INTENSELY CONTRADICTORY FORCES ........................................... 1 My Grandmother’s World: The Past Lingering In The Present .................................................................... 2 My Parents: The Present Lingering In The Future ....................................................................................... 9 School: The Future Lingering In The Past .................................................................................................. 13 2.PLACES, SPACES, MEMORY, AND METHODOLOGY .................................................................................... 23 3.THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE IN INDIA A CONUNDRUM ............................................................................... 34 Growing Up In The Middle Of The Land .................................................................................................... 34 Closer To The Beginning ............................................................................................................................. 36 Two Sides Of The Same Coin: Arguments For And Against English ........................................................... 44 And So It Is .................................................................................................................................................................. 45 4.GLOBAL FLOWS, CULTURAL HYBRIDITY, AND IMAGINATION .................................................................... 47 5.CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................................. 57 BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................................... 58