Аннотация:The paper is based on the study of Hindi-English bilinguals whose mother tongue is the standard Hindi based on the Khari boli dialect and whose English knowledge is perfect. As for professional life, the majority of Indian Urban intellectual elite may be called monolingual. It has been shown in the paper that the type of bilingualism and multilingualism of the modern South Asian intellectual elites is absolutely different from the bilingualism of the intellectual elite formed by previous generations.
