1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)
Contents
Introduction -- British rule and classifications and Indian languages -- Language, history, nation, and the imaginary of Maithili identity -- Maithili language and the movement, part -I -- Maithili language and the movement, part-II
Summary
Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which implicitly or explicitly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, this text examines the formation of the Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language
Notes
This edition previously issued in print: 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Audience
Specialized
Notes
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 15, 2019)
