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Jha, Mithilesh Kumar (Lecturer in political science),

Language politics and public sphere in North India : making of the Maithili movement / Mithilesh Kumar Jha. - First edition. - 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). - Oxford scholarship online . - Oxford scholarship online. .

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Specialized.

ISBN: 9780199092116 (ebook) : No price

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Language policy--India.
Sociolinguistics--India.
Maithili language--Political aspects--India, North.
Hindi language--Political aspects--India, North.
Urdu language--Political aspects--India, North.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
India, North--Languages--Political aspects.

LC Class. No.: P119.32

Dewey Class. No.: 306.440954