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9780199479344

Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India Making of the Maithili Movement

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199479344

  • ISBN10:

    0199479348

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2018-04-22
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography


Mithilesh Kumar Jha, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati

Mithilesh Kumar Jha teaches Political Science in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

Table of Contents


List of Maps, Images, and Tables
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Translation
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Language Politics in India and the 'Hindi Heartland'-The Status of Maithili
1 . British Rule and Classifications of Indian Languages: Making of Modern Enumerated Communities
2 . Language, History, Nation, and the Imaginary of Maithili Identity
3 . Maithili Language and the Movement, Part-I
4 . Maithili Language and the Movement, Part-II
Conclusion: Language as a Conceptual Category and Inner Contradictions of the Maithili Movement
Appendix
Select Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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