In India, English has been in use for more than four centuries. Its presence was established by traders of the East India Company, so it was the language of the first merchants, missionaries and settlers. English became the official and academic language of India in the early 20th century. The rise of the nationalist movement in the 1920s that attempted to introduce Hindi as India's national language brought some anti-English sentiment, especially in non-Hindi-speaking states, but they presented their resistance mainly in English. It was therefore decided to temporarily retain English for official purposes. Once independence was achieved and the British disappeared, English continued to be widely used and, in fact, the new constitution makers deliberated and wrote the Indian Constitution in the English language. The large group of English varieties that evolved primarily from British English are called Indian English. Indian English includes all former colonial areas such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. These varieties preserve several features of pronunciation, grammar and semantics of the native languages ​​of India; according to research by the University of Stuttgart, in India there are “more than 1 billion people and more than 80 languages: 35% Hindi, 7% Bengali, 7% Marathi, 7% Telugu, 6% Tamil, 5% Gujarati, 5% Urdu, 4% Oriya, 3% Kannada, 3% Malayalam, 3% Punjabi, 1% Assamese, 1% Kashmiri etc." In terms of phonology, there is wide regional variation within Indian English. different areas of India have very distinct pronunciation patterns of Indian English; similarly, there are different regional accents of English in Britain are many cases of Indianisms when comparing I...... half of sheet...... or their worldviews change. Works Cited http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/other-shows/videos/ thomas-l-friedman-reporting-accent-neutralization. htm http://www.waseda.jp/ocw/AsianStudies/9A-77WorldEnglishSpring2005/Assignments/08_India_TejKB/Indian%20English.pdf http://books.google.com.co/books?id=H8dtjSeWSigC&pg=PA285&lpg=PA285&dq= attitudes+from+RP+speakers+towards+indian+english&source=bl&ots=qQrva3ic3n&sig=yZtLmmko Ed1tI-mRwA3hyqUiWvE&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=fH23UpzvLMXZkQen8YGICQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=una pagina&q=attitudes%20da%2 0RP%20speakers%20towards%20Indians% 20english&f=false http://www.accu.or.jp/appreb/09/pdf33-2/33-2P005-007.pdf http://www.lingualinindia.com/junjul2002/baldridgeindianenglish.html http://www .lingualinindia.com/may2003/annika.html#chapter9http://ifla.uni-stuttgart.de/institut/mitarbeiter/jilka/teaching/dialectology/d13_Safr_Ind.pdf