Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India
Subtitle: Making of the Maithili Movement
Publisher: Oxford University Press India
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780199479344
Subjects: Maithili language; India, languages
Description: Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India 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.