Passions of the Tongue
Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
An important and original book providing a completely new perspective on the intellectual and cultural history of southern India. . . . Sumathi Ramaswamy has both produced a major work of comparative history and made the finest scholarly contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern Tamil Nadu to date.-Nicholas B. Dirks, author of The Hollow CrownThe most thorough account of the history of the symbolic profusion of a language-any language-I have ever read . . . The scholarship is extraordinary, and Ramaswamy is quite likely the most knowledgeable on this subject in the whole of India-nay, the world.-E. Valentine Daniel, auth…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-20805-6
- EAN: 9780520208056
- Produktnummer: 1469975
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 343 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 499 g
- Abbildungen: 12
- Gewicht: 499
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Sumathi Ramaswamy is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
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