Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India
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Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India
Making of the Maithili Movement
Jha, Mithilesh Kumar (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
OUP India
12/2017
368
Dura
Inglês
9780199479344
15 a 20 dias
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.
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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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.
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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