Indian English

Every wondered why Indians drop Articles?

 I am coming from Office

Ever wondered about the joyous mixing of V and W?

I am wery tired

Or about the introductions are puzzling?

What is your good name please?

Turns out there is actually a rationale. Herewith a paper that explains this in detail.  Mind you, if you want to look up specifics, go check out Samosapaedia, for the ultimate glossary on Indian English...

LANGUAGE IN INDIA

English has been with India since the early 1600's, when the East India Company started trading and English missionaries first began their efforts. A large number of Christian schools imparting an English education were set up by the early 1800's. The process of producing English-knowing bilinguals in India began with the Minute of 1835, which officially endorsed T.B. Macaulay's goal of forming "a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern - a class of persons, Indians in blood and colour, but English in taste, in opinion, in morals and in intellect" (quoted in Kachru 1983, p. 22). English became the official and academic language of India by the early twentieth century. The rising of the nationalist movement in the 1920's brought some anti-English sentiment with it -- even though the movement itself used English as its medium. (more...)