Indian English has developed a number of dialects, distinct from the General/Standard Indian English that educators have attempted to establish and institutionalise, and it is possible to distinguish a person's sociolinguistic background from the dialect that they employ.
[1][2][3] Indian English is a "network of varieties", resulting from an extraordinarily complex linguistic situation in the country.
[3][4][5][6] The formation of these regional/socio-economic dialects is the same form of language contact that has given rise to Scottish English.
[8][9] The distinguishing characteristics of Babu English are the florid, excessively polite, and indirect manner of expression, which have been reported for amusement value, in works such as Cecil Hunt's Honoured Sir collections (see Further reading), and lampooned, in works such as F. Antesey's Baboo Jabberjee, B.A., for over a century.
[citation needed] Modern phonologists often divide Indian English into five major varieties.
West Indian English here refers to a traditional variety spoken in the western part of India.
In addition to these, the alveolar stops [t] and [d] in words like water and door are often pronounced as their retroflex equivalents [ʈ] and [ɖ] respectively.