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Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 / Sumathi Ramaswamy.
De Gruyter University of California Press eBook-Package Archive Pre-2000 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi, author.
- Series:
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; Volume 29.
- Studies on the history of society and culture ; 29
- Studies on the History of Society and Culture Series ; Volume 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi--Knowledge and learning.
- Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
- Dravidian languages.
- Critical pedagogy--United States.
- Critical pedagogy.
- Language and culture--India--History.
- Language and culture.
- Language and languages--Study and teaching--United States.
- Language and languages.
- Nationalism--India--History.
- Nationalism.
- India--Languages--Political aspects.
- India.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947--Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 303 p. ) ill. ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1997]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- Why would love for their language lead men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This book analyzes the discourses of love, labour, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- Preface
- 1. Introduction: Language in History and Modernity
- 2. One Language, Many Imaginings
- 3. Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden
- 4. Laboring for Language: The State of Tamil Devotion
- 5. To Die For: Living for Language
- 6. Conclusion: Tamil Subjects
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780520918795
- 0520918797
- 9780585106007
- 0585106002
- OCLC:
- 1163878791
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