Passions of the Tongue Language Devotion in Tamil India 1891 1970 1st Edition by Sumathi Ramaswamy ISBN 0520208056 978-0520208056

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ISBN 10: 0520208056 

ISBN 13: 978-0520208056

Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy

 In this book, Sumathi Ramaswamy explores how the Tamil language became the focus of intense commitments in twentieth-century South India. Following recent calls among South Asian scholars to find alternatives to narratives derived from western experience, she rejects language nationalism as an appropriate conceptual tool for her study, both because the term implies a universal European standard by which language feeling is to be measured and because it is incapable of encompassing the full range of ideas and sentiments that became attached to Tamil. Instead she employs a concept grounded in the discourse of the politicians and writers she has studied: that of tamilpparru or devotion to Tamil.

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Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: One Language, Many Imaginings
Chapter 3: Feminizing Language
The Poetics and Politics of Praise
Tamil as Maiden: Erotics of Tamil Devotion
On the Feminization of Language
Visualizing Tamiḻttāy
Notes
Chapter 4: Laboring for Language
Chapter 5: To Die For
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Abbreviations
Plates
References

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