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Language politics and public sphere in North India : making of the Maithili movement / Mithilesh Kumar Jha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi, India : Oxford University Press, 2018.Description: xix, 341p. : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 22cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199479344
  • 0199479348
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 491.4547 JHA 22
LOC classification:
  • PK1811 .J43 2018
Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available as an e-book.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Also available as an e-book.

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