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Tamil / David Shulman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shulman, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tamil language--History.
- Tamil language.
- Tamil (Indic people)--Intellectual life.
- Tamil (Indic people).
- Tamil literature--History and criticism.
- Tamil literature.
- Tamil poetry--History and criticism.
- Tamil poetry.
- Tamil (Indic people)--History.
- India--Civilization.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Beginnings
- First Budding: Tamil from the Inside
- Second Budding: The Musical Self
- The Imperial Moment, Truth, and Sound
- Republic of Syllables
- A Tamil Modernity
- Beyond the Merely Modern
- Notes
- References
- Credits
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
- ISBN:
- 9780674974654
- 0674974654
- 9780674974678
- 0674974670
- OCLC:
- 959979055
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