Language politics and public sphere in North India making of the Maithili movement

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which implicitly or explicitly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, this text examines the formation of the Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language.

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Main Author: Jha, Mithilesh Kumar (Lecturer in political science) (Author)
Language:English
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
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Online Access:Link to e-book
Summary:Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which implicitly or explicitly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, this text examines the formation of the Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language.
Item Description:This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).
Audience:Specialized.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2019.
ISBN:9780199092116 (ebook)