ABSTRACT
Indian English is one of the most extensively studied varieties of World Englishes or International Englishes. The study, and indeed the creation of the term “World Englishes” was spurred by the explosive spread of English to all corners of the globe, and, therefore, its inevitable change. English in India has always been seen as “a symbol of modernization, a key to expanded functional roles and an extra arm for success and mobility”. Indian English has been extensively studied and is perhaps the most widely studied World English, and today, corpus-based investigations of the variety, and variation within the variety abound. The difference between the texts in 2000, on the one hand, and those from 2016 and 2019, on the other, raises the question of whether the written Indian English in certain registers is becoming less bound to the Indian culture.
