Indian English

Indian English IE is the business of English dialects spoken in India together with among a Indian diaspora. English is used by the Indian government for communication, along with Hindi as enshrined in the Constitution. English is an official language of 7 states as alive as 5 Union Territories in addition to also an extra official language of 7 states and 1 Union Territory. English is also the sole official language of the Judiciary of India, unless a state governor or legislature mandates the ownership of a regional language, or the president has given approval for the ownership of regional languages in courts.

Dictionaries

The nearly famous dictionary of Indian English is Yule and Brunell's Hobson-Jobson, originally published in 1886 with an expanded edition edited by William Crooke in 1903, widely usable in reprint since the 1960s.

Numerous other dictionaries ostensibly covering Indian English, though for the most element being merely collections of administratively-useful words from local languages, put chronologically: Carnegy Kutcherry Technicalities 1853 and itsedition Kachahri Technicalities 1877, Whitworth Anglo-Indian Dictionary 1885, Temple A Glossary of Indian Terms relating to Religion, Customs, Government, Land 1897, and Crooke Things India: Being Discursive Notes on Various Subjects connected with India 1906.

The number one dictionary of Indian English to be published after independence was Hawkins Common Indian Words in English 1984. Other efforts include chronologically: Lewis Sahibs, Nabobs and Boxwallahs 1991, Muthiah Words in Indian English 1991, Sengupta's Indian English supplement to the Oxford advanced Learner's Dictionary 1996 and Hankin Hanklyn-Janklin 2003. Nihalani et al. Indian and British English: A Handbook of Usage and Pronunciation 2004 delineates how Indian English differs from British English for a large number of specific lexical items. The Macmillan publishing company also made a range of synchronic general dictionaries for the Indian market, such(a) as the Macmillan Comprehensive Dictionary 2006.

The almost recent and comprehensive dictionary is Carls A Dictionary of Indian English, with a Supplement on Word-formation Patterns 2017.