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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493751803321

Autore

Bate Bernard

Titolo

Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford University Press, 2021

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-5036-2866-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 pages)

Collana

South Asia in Motion

Disciplina

494.811

Soggetti

Political oratory - History - South Asia - 20th century

Rhetoric - Political aspects - History - South Asia - 20th century

Tamil language - Political aspects - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Editors' Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Citations -- Bernard Bate's Acknowledgments -- Foreword: Speaking of Barney Bate -- Introduction: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern -- PART I: THE PROTESTANT MODERN -- 1 The Ethics of Textuality -- 2 Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant Modern -- PART II: THE TAMIL MODERN -- 3 Speaking Swadeshi, Madras 1907 -- 4 Subramania Bharati and the Tamil Modern -- 5 Elocutionary Incandescence -- Epilogue: Home Rule, the Labor Movement, and Linguistic and Political Modernity -- Afterword: Oratory and the Origins of Politics -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.