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.
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Language policy--India. Sociolinguistics--India. Maithili language--Political aspects--India, North. Hindi language--Political aspects--India, North. Urdu language--Political aspects--India, North.