LEADER 03667nam 22008415 450 001 996247919403316 005 20220609233141.0 010 $a0-520-91879-7 010 $a0-585-10600-2 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520918795 035 $a(CKB)110989862155150 035 $a(MH)007545724-5 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084636 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11120353 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084636 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10168771 035 $a(PQKB)11340350 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083840 035 $a(DE-B1597)544117 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520918795 035 $a(OCoLC)1163878791 035 $a(dli)HEB02445 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000003898694 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30696798 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30696798 035 $a(OCoLC)1394120434 035 $a(EXLCZ)99110989862155150 100 $a20200707h19971997 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPassions of the tongue $elanguage devotion in Tamil India, 1891?1970 /$fSumathi Ramaswamy 205 $aReprint 2019 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1997] 210 4$dİ1997 215 $a1 online resource (xxiii, 303 p. )$cill. ; 225 0 $aStudies on the History of Society and Culture ;$v29 225 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$v29 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-520-20804-8 311 0 $a0-520-20805-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Illustrations --$tAcknowledgments --$tNote on Transliteration --$tPreface --$t1. Introduction: Language in History and Modernity --$t2. One Language, Many Imaginings --$t3. Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden --$t4. Laboring for Language: The State of Tamil Devotion --$t5. To Die For: Living for Language --$t6. Conclusion: Tamil Subjects --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 8 $aWhy would love for their language lead men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This book analyzes the discourses of love, labour, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. 410 0$aStudies on the history of society and culture ;$vv. 29. 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aCritical pedagogy$zUnited States 606 $aLanguage and culture$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aNationalism$zIndia$xHistory 606 $aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching$zUnited States 606 $aCritical pedagogy$xHistory$zUnited States 606 $aLanguage and culture$xHistory$zIndia 606 $aNationalism$zIndia 607 $aIndia$xLanguages$xPolitical aspects 607 $aIndia$xHistory$xBritish occupation, 1765-1947$xHistoriography 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aCritical pedagogy 615 0$aLanguage and culture$xHistory. 615 0$aNationalism$xHistory. 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aCritical pedagogy$xHistory 615 0$aLanguage and culture$xHistory 615 0$aNationalism 676 $a494/.811/0954 700 $aRamaswamy$b Sumathi$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0766234 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996247919403316 996 $aPassions of the tongue$91558629 997 $aUNISA