Passions of the Tongue : Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies on the History of Society and Culture
ISBN-10
0520208056
ISBN-13
9780520208056
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 20th, 1997
Print length
343 Pages
Weight
499 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.30 cms
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Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
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