Mithilesh Kumar Jha

Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India

Making of the Maithili Movement

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 147mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199479344
• ISBN-10: 0199479348
• Artikelnr.: 50992051

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

* 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