Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
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Beteilige Person: Ramaswamy, Sumathi (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley University of California Press ©1997
Schriftenreihe:Studies on the history of society and culture 29
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index
One Language, Many Imaginings -- Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden -- Laboring for Language -- To Die For
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
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 303 pages)
ISBN:0520208048
0520208056
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0585106002
9780520918795
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