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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 29)
Passions of the Tongue Language Devotion in Tamil India 18911970 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 29
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue 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 reviva...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520208056
ISBN-10: 0520208056
Publication Date: 11/20/1997
Pages: 340
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Publisher: University of California Press
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