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Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
Ramaswamy, Sumathi.
Year: c1997.
Publisher:  University of California Press. 
© University of California Press
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table of contents
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Preface
1. Introduction: Language in History and Modernity
Language and Devotion
Language, Colonialism, and Modernity
Language and Gender
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2. One Language, Many Imaginings
Religiously Tamil: The Language Divine
Civilizing Tamil: The Language Classical
Language and the Nation: Indianizing Tamil
Language of the Nation: Dravidianizing Tamil
The Many Faces of Tamil
3. Feminizing Language: Tamil as Goddess, Mother, Maiden
The Poetics and Politics of Praise
Tamil as Deity: Pietistics of Tamil Devotion
Tamil as Mother: Somatics of Tamil Devotion
Tamil as Maiden: Erotics of Tamil Devotion
On the Feminization of Language
Visualizing Tamilttay
4. Laboring for Language: The State of Tamil Devotion
Worshipping with Tamil: Language and Liturgy
Cleansing Tamil: Language and Purity
"What's in a Name?": Rechristening Madras State
Enthronement of Tamil: Dilemmas of Rule
Battling the Demoness Hindi
5. To Die For: Living for Language
The Woman Devotee
The Missionary Devotee
The Brahman Devotee
The Poet Devotee
The Scholar Devotee
The Devotee as Publicist
The Devotee as Patron
The Warrior Devotee
The Devotee as Martyr
The Anti-Devotee
6. Conclusion: Tamil Subjects
Notes
References
Index
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Title: Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Sumathi Ramaswamy.
Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi
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Source Version: Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Sumathi Ramaswamy. 
Ramaswamy, Sumathi
Berkeley: University of California Press, c1997.
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02445
Subject Headings: • Ramaswamy, Sumathi -- Knowledge -- Dravidian languages
• Critical pedagogy -- United States
• Language and culture -- India -- History
• Nationalism -- India -- History
• Language and languages -- Study and teaching -- United States
• India -- Languages -- Political aspects
• India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947 -- Historiography
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