Indian English

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Indian English
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Indian English

• Indian English is fine for an Indian audience
• But if you are writing for an international
  audience
• Avoid local terms
• or put them in italics, and explain them
• Dalit, bigha, rabi, kharif, jowar, bajra, mandal,
  sangam, gram panchayat

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Indian English

• Avoid lakhs and crores
• 1,000,000, not 10,00,000
• Avoid Indian abbreviations
• AP, UP, BJP, ICAR
• Spell them out
• Provide conversions
• 1 Rs 74 (2006)
• 1 bigha 0.13 ha

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Indian English

• Watch use of articles
• The, a, an
• Watch use of passives
• Destoning was done to make the plough move easily
• The farmers removed big stones from the fields to
  make ploughing easier

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Indian English

• Watch use of certain words and phrases
• Avail
• The farmers cannot avail resources
• The farmers cannot access/get resources
• Available
• Clouds will be available
• It will be cloudy

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Indian English

• Backward
• Backward castes
• Disadvantaged castes
• Call
• I called some friends round
• I invited some friends round
• Exigencies
• They migrated due to some exigencies
• They migrated because their crops failed

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Indian English

• Furnish
• Please furnish me with three copies
• Please provide three copies
• Induct
• The institute inducted three staff
• The institute hired three staff
• Learnings
• What learnings have been made?
• What have we learned? What lessons can we draw?

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Indian English

• Reach
• It will take 3 hours to reach
• It will take 3 hours to arrive
• Revert
• Please revert
• Please get back to me
• Same
• He wrote a manuscript and then edited the same
• He wrote a manuscript and then edited it

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Indian English

• Sanction
• The department head sanctioned the staff
• The department head punished the staff
• Side
• The government side wishes to
• The government wishes to
• Upliftment
• The project aims for the upliftment of the rural
  masses
• The project is trying to develop rural areas