About
Dr. Mithilesh Kumar Jha teaches Political Science at the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. His research interests are - political thought in comparative
perspective particularly Indian and Western political thought, political theory, Indian politics especially language and
related issues of state formations in modern India. His important publications are Language Politics and Public Sphere in
North India: Making of the Maithili Movement, Oxford University Press, New Delhi (2018); Glimpses of Mithila and
Maithili: The Correspondence of George Abraham Grierson, Kalyani Foundation: Darbhanga (2013).