Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 /

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...

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Main Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Corporate Author: American Council of Learned Societies
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1997], ©1997
Berkeley : c1997
Berkeley : [1997]
Berkeley : c1997
Berkeley : ©1997
Series:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 29
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