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Language, emotion, and politics in south India : the making of a mother tongue /
What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of thes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2009.
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| Colección: | Contemporary Indian studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 281 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Premios: | American Institute of Indian Studies, Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr., Prize in the Indian Humanities. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-269) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253002891 0253002893 0253353017 9780253353016 0253220696 9780253220691 1282103547 9781282103542 9786612103544 661210354X |