There is no social security in India so many times aging parents solely depend on their kids for their livelihood. So its ingrained in culture to push your kids into studying what might be profitable than what is interesting to the kids.
Regarding social security you are right but that is not the reason parents push kids into studying. They believe(foolishly) that giving better education to the kids is their life purpose. It's infused so by the culture and society.
See:
http://koenraadelst.blogspot.in/2015/11/propagating-english-...
Many at this point jut in by saying "English is ours, you Heathen!", but really though it is not. India's English proficiency index was lower than China and Japan in 2011 [2] (before magically jumping up).
I've been extremely disappointed with India. There is very little awareness of political systems, even while many get drawn into pompous nationalism. Everyone is obsessed with how the best of Indians leave for the US, and are greedily optimizing for how to get a share of that sweet sweet dough. This from language teachers,writers to engineers, scientists. When Sanskrit/Kannada teachers start spouting English for class signalling, you realize there is no hope for India (much as with Africa). It's not surprising that the power centers of Indology are in the US.
Also see,
[1] http://sankrant.org/2011/03/the-english-class-system-2/
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Decolonising-Mind-Studies-African-Lit...
[3] http://www.ef.co.th/sitecore/__/~/media/efcom/epi/pdf/EF-EPI...
Power centers in the US? Source? Everyone is trying to leave? From what I've heard India doesn't have enough opportunities for everyone so some people try to leave. Also India has 10+ different languages, all I see you citing are two.
> There is very little awareness of political systems
Uh-huh. Right. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_India. Have you ever heard of a parliamentary, democratic republic? They have a constitution and 3 branches of government too.
I'm just googling shit here and I already appear to know more than you do.
Perhaps Google can teach you reading comprehension too.