THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH ON MARATHI

A SOCIOLINGUISTIC
AND STYLISTIC STUDY

This study by Dr.Bhalchandra Nemade, well known creative writer and scholar in Marathi, is a systematic attempt at analysing the nature and type of the linguistic influence of English on a major Indian literature as part of Indian accultination of the nineteenth century. The study has developed a comparative literacy concept of influence invoking the entire scale of specific socio-linguistic processes active at the deeper level of society.