There is no "indish" language. Before brittain invaded they only had small local languages so its their easiest choice for communicating outside their small own language zones.

tumko dusari bhasa samaz aayegi ? (will u undertand other language..) :) actually due to outsourcing jobs..english is more used now..Also North & south & other have their own lang too..english all knows. More u gud at Engl more $$ pay to some extent

you ever called dell and talked to some of them .... i dont call that english ...Ugggg

Do you have any idea of how many languages and dialects there are in India? There are hundreds. It is possible to travel fifty miles in any direction an not be able to understand the local dialect. THAT is why English is spoken. It is the "universal solvent" of Indian communication. Learn more here ... http://www.asianinfo.org/asianinfo/india/pro-languages.htm That's okay, it gets worse ... Every state (and virtually every Union Territory) in India has its own dialect of English, which is a product of many of the rules of pronunciation of the local language being applied to what is generally termed Indian English. Note that rural India hasn't as many English speakers as urban India, and that there is too extensive a difference between the way people from these two greatly varying worlds would speak to record each and every village's personal spin on the state dialect. This article, therefore, addresses the regional dialects of Indian English in the context of only urban India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_differences_and_dialects_in_Indian_English

Many years of colonization i'd say/-

1) "Hindi (Standard Hindi besides many dialects of varying mutual intelligibility) is the most widespread language of India. The Indian census takes the widest possible definition of "Hindi" as a broad variety of "Hindi languages". The native speakers of Hindi so defined accounts for 40% of Indians. Indian English ranks as 40th as first language as per the census. English is the second "language of the Union" besides Hindi." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers 2) "The Indian constitution, in 1950, declared Hindi in Devanagari script to be the official language of the union. Unless Parliament decided otherwise, the use of English for official purposes was to cease 15 years after the constitution came into effect, i.e., on 26 January 1965. The prospect of the changeover, however, led to much alarm in the non Hindi-speaking areas of India, as a result of which Parliament enacted the Official Languages Act, 1963, which provided for the continued use of English for official purposes along with Hindi, even after 1965. An attempt was made in late 1964 to expressly provide for an end to the use of English, but it was met with protests from across the country. Some of these protests also turned violent. Widespread protests occurred in states such as Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Karnataka, Pondicherry and Andhra Pradesh. As a result of these protests, the proposal was dropped, and the Act itself was amended in 1967 to provide that the use of English would not be ended until a resolution to that effect was passed by the legislature of every state that had not adopted Hindi as its official language, and by each house of the Indian Parliament." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_languages_of_India 3) "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. Once independence was gained and the English were gone, the perception of English as having an alien power base changed; however, the controversy about English has continued to this day. Kachru notes that "English now has national and international functions that are both distinct and complementary. English has thus acquired a new power base and a new elitism" (Kachru 1986, p. 12). Only about three percent of India's population speak English, but they are the individuals who lead India's economic, industrial, professional, political, and social life. Even though English is primarily a second language for these persons, it is the medium in which a great number of the interactions in the above domains are carried out. Having such important information moving in English conduits is often not appreciated by Indians who do not speak it, but they are relatively powerless to change that. Its inertia is such that it cannot be easily given up. This is particularly true in South India, where English serves as a universal language in the way that Hindi does in the North. Despite being a three percent minority, the English speaking population in India is quite large. With India's massive population, that three percent puts India among the top four countries in the world with the highest number of English speakers. English confers many advantages to the influential people who speak it -- which has allowed it to retain its prominence despite the strong opposition to English which rises periodically. " Source and further information: http://www.languageinindia.com/junjul2002/baldridgeindianenglish.html

It is not correct that "more people speak English than their own language". Almost every Indian has a native language which they speak before, and in preference to, English. The trouble is that there are over 200 such languages. It would be ridiculous for everyybody to have to learn even all the languages used in their neighbourhoods. Therefore English has been used as a universal second language: everybody speaks their own language first, and English second. They could have chosen an Indian language, probably Hindi, as a second language, but this would have been regarded by the speakers of other languages as giving Hindi-speakers an unfair advantage. Also, the international use of English makes it advantageous to learn.

If you had to phone a call center in India then you wouldn't say it was English

We do not hate our own language. We love our mother tongue but to be competitive in this world and become more progressive Indians are very highly educated in English. Most of the English medium schools are world class and their students are super intelligent. We lack in infrastructure and finance otherwise we would be outsourcing abroad rather than other way round. Funny observation about Japanese and Chinese, do you see them in their traditional clothes at work or suits and skirts?The answer is called adaptation to universal culture and beat them to their own game by becoming more competitive!!!

It is not correct that "more people speak English than their own language". Almost every Indian has a native language which they speak before, and in preference to, English. The trouble is that there are over 200 such languages. It would be ridiculous for everyybody to have to learn even all the languages used in their neighbourhoods. Therefore English has been used as a universal second language: everybody speaks their own language first, and English second. They could have chosen an Indian language, probably Hindi, as a second language, but this would have been regarded by the speakers of other languages as giving Hindi-speakers an unfair advantage. Also, the international use of English makes it advantageous to learn.