文档介绍：ii Study on Language Policy of India Abstract As a new field in linguistics, language planning and language policy is attracting more and more attention from scholars in relative fields. Governments and academic institutes also contribute a lot in designing and implementing language policy. India is a country with many nations and languages. plexsituation oflanguage distribution anduse make it a very difficult task for India to make language policies. To some extent, the research on Indian language policy will open a window for us to learn aboutthe social structure of India and understand India?s social ideology. At the same time, it can serve asareference for making language policy in China. This thesis has explored the evolvement of Indian language policy from a historical perspective and elaborated on the language policy in the colonial period and after independence. Then it focuses on the Three Language Formula and finds out that there are deep political reasons for the formation of the current language policy. In the colonial period, there were two different opinions as to the education in India. One opinion supports the studyof Indian languages, which is Orientalism. The other supports English instruction, which is Anglicism. At the commencement of British rule, governors adopted the Orientalists? proposals to make it more easily to adjust to the local society. They encouraged the British officers to learn Indian language and culture, established schools which taught Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, etc., and used local languages to disseminate western culture. As British rule in India gradually stabilized, rulers began to support Anglicists to use English as the language for education. After independence, the Indian government began to limit the use of English and stipulated in the Constitution that Hindi shall replace English in 15 years. However, the southern non Hin