 Welcome to my channel, I am Harpata Karwa and in this particular video series I am going to talk about a new edition in the syllabus of UGC NET English. And that new edition is unit number 6 that is English in India, History, Evolution and Future. Now I was always teaching this particular topic to my students because even though the topic was introduced recently, a lot of times UGC NET department used to ask questions from the history of English language in India. So I always had this section in my online course but then when this was introduced in the new syllabus I thought that why not, let's give it a separate corner in the website and let me start a new video lecture series on this new topic. I have seen that a lot of students were worried after this new topic was introduced in the syllabus and the reason why they were worried was that there was no good book which could give them enough information about the history of English literature in India. So I thought that why not, let's start a free video lecture series wherein I can discuss all the important topics that you must cover in this particular unit. So in this video lecture series I am going to talk about all the important decisions made by East India Company and all the important movements which were related to the English in India and we are going to look at its history, how it evolved as a language and now what is the future of English in India. But before I talk about the major issues I would first like you to go to my website www.arpetakarwa.com and check out the list of important topics that I have posted for free for all the students and these important topics are segregated according to the 10 modules which have been introduced in the syllabus of UGC-Net English recently. So let's begin from the really starting, we all know that East India Company came into India around 1700s and it was during this period that for the first time English was introduced to Indian people. The director of the East India Company was Charles Grant who believed that by introducing English in India he can actually eradicate the superstitious beliefs of the Indian people. At that time we know that people were really superstitious about things and they were very much God fearing and as far as Grant's views are concerned he believed that if English is introduced in India then that can change people morally, socially and culturally. Also you must note at this special point that when English came into India it was known as the Christian tongue. So that was how people used to call English Christian tongue and why was it called Christian tongue? Because father of Lord Macaulay, the famous man who wrote minutes on English education, his name was Zakari Macaulay. Zakari Macaulay was the father of Lord Macaulay and he was also in the British cabinet wherein he was introducing English in different different colonies and he was of the view that by introducing English they could spread Christianity all across the globe. So their purpose was that Christianity as a language should become the official religion of all the people across globe and since the language of Christianity is English we need to introduce English to the people of colonies so that they can understand the views and beliefs of the Christian people. The next important event which helped English as a language to flourish across the Indian subcontinent was the Charter Act of 1813. Now you must be wondering what is this Charter Act of 1813 and how did this act help English to flourish across India? Charter Act of 1813 was an act which was passed by the Parliament of United Kingdom that is Great Britain and the act said that number one all the people in India they would be given money as in some money would be allocated to the department of East India Company so that they can promote education and also they can encourage people to take up English as a language and the second important thing that was mentioned in the act was that this act is going to give permission to missionaries to come to India and promote Christianity. Missionaries are basically organization with a purpose to spread Christianity so they are going to come to different different countries and then by using different means they are going to convert people into Christianity so missionaries were asked to come to India to promote Christianity and also to promote English as a language so that people can understand Christianity better. Missionaries played a very important role in encouraging people to take up English as a language in Indian subcontinent we are going to discuss the role of missionaries in detail in the upcoming video lecture in which I am going to take this topic forward and give you some other important information about English in India its history, evolution and future. 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