ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses English Studies (ES) in Indian higher education (HE) within the global field, commenting on the extent to which the global spread of the discipline has been registered in and otherwise impinged upon disciplinary especially pedagogic practices. It presents two sections: English literary and cultural study in India apropos the global context, and the study of English language and linguistics in relation to the global purchase of English. In this the pursuit of the discipline in India appeared to be consistent with the shape the discipline was assuming more widely, evincing a convergence between English literary studies and comparative/world literature. The porosity of geopolitical boundaries, the cultural and linguistic admixtures and adaptations and hybridities, the continuous dynamic of flows between languages and localities which undergird almost all literature and literary history and cultural domains are elided in favour of constantly opposed geopolitical binaries and a conceptual precedence of bound space.
