This text examines how early 20th-century discourse on language, literature, religion and nationalism contributed to the development of the Hindi language, which evolved during the nationalist movement to become India's national tongue.
This text examines how early 20th-century discourse on language, literature, religion and nationalism contributed to the development of the Hindi language, which evolved during the nationalist movement to become India's national tongue
This text examines how early 20th-century discourse on language, literature, religion and nationalism contributed to the development of the Hindi language, which evolved during the nationalist movement to become India's national tongue.
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.