Language politics and public sphere in North India :
Jha, Mithilesh Kumar (Lecturer in political science),
Language politics and public sphere in North India : making of the Maithili movement / Mithilesh Kumar Jha. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xix, 341p. : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, this book examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language. It revisits the dynamic hierarchy through which a distinction is produced between 'major' and 'minor' languages.
9780199479344 0199479348
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2017-350171
Maithili language--History.
Maithili language--Political aspects--History.--India--Bihar
PK1811 / .J43 2018
491.4547 / JHA
Language politics and public sphere in North India : making of the Maithili movement / Mithilesh Kumar Jha. - New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018. - xix, 341p. : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22cm.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-327) and index.
Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, this book examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language. It revisits the dynamic hierarchy through which a distinction is produced between 'major' and 'minor' languages.
9780199479344 0199479348
Library of Congress -- New Delhi Overseas Office
2017-350171
Maithili language--History.
Maithili language--Political aspects--History.--India--Bihar
PK1811 / .J43 2018
491.4547 / JHA