Development of English Language in Bengal under theEast India Company Rule

Abstract

The development of English language demonstrates a historical chronology of continued events like renaissance, and reformation and serves as a mechanism for carrying out the world from classical to modern to post-modern duration. Dialects of English have extensively developed in many of the former colonies of the British Empire. The English Civil War of 1642-1649 and the Revolution of 1688-1689 played a major role in the alteration of political and economic life within the state. The significant development in institutional changes resulted in European mercantile expansion to overseas colonies where they extracted great amount of wealth. The foundation of joint-stock companies, such as the East Indian Company (1600) in England, was considered a great development in capitalist-mercantilism (The Washington Review, 2011). English was considered as a medium for exchanging business relations and flourishing colonial power exercise along the Indian beautiful landscape. There are distinct forms of the English language spoken in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India and many other parts of the world. Businesses operated by British merchant class and advances in Industrial and French revolution have tremendously acknowledged English as a medium of language for building communication, carrying out business and administering governing activities across the globe.