Maithili Academy is an autonomous organisation of the

Government of Bihar Bihar Government is the State governments of India, state government of the States and territories of India, Indian state of Bihar and its nine Divisions of Bihar, divisions which consist of Districts of Bihar, districts. It consists of an execut ...

dedicated to the promotion of the

Maithili language Maithili ( , ) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in parts of India and Nepal. It is native to the Mithila region, which encompasses parts of the eastern Indian states of Bihar and Jharkhand as well as Nepal's Koshi Province, Koshi and Madhesh P ...

, its literature and culture, founded in 1976 at the urging of chief minister

Jagannath Mishra Jagannath Mishra (24 June 1937 – 19 August 2019) was an Indian politician who served as Chief Minister of Bihar and as Union Council of Ministers, Minister in the Union Cabinet. He was also Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha between 1988 - 1990 ...

. Its first chairman was Srikant Thakur Vidyalankar. The academy publishes books in Maithili along with a fortnightly magazine. Its publication ''Uccatara Maithilī Vyãkaraṇa'' (''Higher Maithili grammar'') by G. Jha has been described as "the most noteworthy contribution to the field of Maithili linguistics."

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