Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India

Mithilesh Kumar Jha (Lecturer in political science)
Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India

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.


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