How did English/ English Studies gain support and consolidation in post independent India?

The publishing industry was at once enabled and constricted. It still was not free to publish as per market demands. It still could not encourage new writers. It still had to conform to a state agenda. Nationalisation of curricula and the active participation of the state in publishing the new textbooks resulted in shutting down publishing avenues for the private sector. The state held a monopoly over textbook publishing. As Indian publishers survived and thrived mainly on textbook publishing, it served a hard blow to their enterprise. It was difficult for them to diversify into new, non-textbook oriented spaces in the publishing world.

The publishing companies that still managed to remain in the textbook -printing arena did not go in for innovative strategies or engage writers from India. They chose a more lucrative practice of reprinting British primers and classics for the universities. The Indian universities were continuing with the universal, canonised English writers. Keeping this point in mind, the publishing houses chose to take no risks by exploring the idea of selecting Indian writers, editors or commentators. Literary criticism was also borrowed from the Anglo-American academy.