scholarships offered by US universities for Indian students intending to take up a masters in english?

Answer 1

Keep in mind that schools and the donors who often endow scholarships do so in order to achieve some goal of their own, not yours. Therefore, you will face a few problems. First of all, fairly little financial aid is given at all at the Master's level, since very few people think that what the world needs most is more people with Master's degrees in English. Most financial aid at the Master's level is in the form of loans or graduate assistantships. Secondly, most U.S. universities, if they want to attract students from abroad, do so to enhance, not detract from, their financial positions. Therefore, they are far more likely to give scholarships to the best U.S. students than they are to give them to Indian students (this does seem to break down at the Ph.D. level, but not so much at the Master's level). Many international students in the U.S. are sponsored by their own governments to study here, but unfortunately that is not the case for Indian students. Your best bet might be if some Indian graduate of a particular school did well and wants to see others follow in his or her footsteps by endowing a specific scholarship for other Indian students. I can't say that I've ever seen such a scholarship fund, though.

Answer 2

Most of the scholarships in US universities are sponsored by the US government, so they are only available to US citizens. And of course there are many thousands of US citizens competing for the remaining scholarships. So, the chances are not good that you could get a scholarship. And in any case, there are not a lot of scholarships for MA in English.

On the other hand, there are 4000 colleges in the USA. A large majority of them would offer MA in English. Especially at large state universities, the required undergraduate English sections are taught or supervised by graduate students. So there is a slim chance you could get a position as a Teaching Assistant at a large state university. In order to do this you would have to have a very strong academic record, and the school would be very concerned that your English language skills be perfect. Especially, you could have no more than a faint Indian accent. Otherwise the freshmen students would complain and you could lose your job.

I don't think this is an impossible cream, but it is definitely a long shot. You would be competing against all the students in India who think that coming to the USA to study for a year might be fun. But maybe someone is going to do this, and it could be you.

Keep working on it, and Good Luck.