03812nam 22009015 450 991049614550332120220609233141.0978052091879505209187979780585106007058510600210.1525/9780520918795(CKB)110989862155150(MH)007545724-5(SSID)ssj0000084636(PQKBManifestationID)11120353(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084636(PQKBWorkID)10168771(PQKB)11340350(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083840(DE-B1597)544117(DE-B1597)9780520918795(OCoLC)1163878791(dli)HEB02445(MiU)MIU01000000000000003898694(MiAaPQ)EBC30696798(Au-PeEL)EBL30696798(OCoLC)1394120434(Perlego)4210751(EXLCZ)9911098986215515020200707h19971997 fg 0engur|||||||||||txtccrPassions of the tongue language devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970 /Sumathi RamaswamyReprint 2019Berkeley, CA :University of California Press,[1997]©19971 online resource (xxiii, 303 p. )ill. ;Studies on the History of Society and Culture ;29Studies on the history of society and culture ;29Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780520208049 0520208048 9780520208056 0520208056 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Note on Transliteration --Preface --1. Introduction: Language in History and Modernity --2. One Language, Many Imaginings --3. Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden --4. Laboring for Language: The State of Tamil Devotion --5. To Die For: Living for Language --6. Conclusion: Tamil Subjects --Notes --References --IndexWhy would love for their language lead men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This book analyzes the discourses of love, labour, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.Studies on the history of society and culture ;v. 29.Language and languagesStudy and teachingUnited StatesCritical pedagogyUnited StatesLanguage and cultureIndiaHistoryNationalismIndiaHistoryLanguage and languagesStudy and teachingUnited StatesCritical pedagogyHistoryUnited StatesLanguage and cultureHistoryIndiaNationalismIndiaIndiaLanguagesPolitical aspectsIndiaHistoryBritish occupation, 1765-1947HistoriographyLanguage and languagesStudy and teachingCritical pedagogyLanguage and cultureHistory.NationalismHistory.Language and languagesStudy and teachingCritical pedagogyHistoryLanguage and cultureHistoryNationalism494/.811/0954Ramaswamy Sumathiauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut766234DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910496145503321Passions of the tongue1558629UNINA