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Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia /

"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bate, Bernard (Autor)
Otros Autores: Annamalai, E. (Editor ), Cody, Francis, 1976- (Editor ), Malarvizhi (Editor ), Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Colección:South Asia in motion.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword : speaking of Barney Bate, or "Tamil oratory is new" / by A.R. Venkatachalapathy
  • Introduction : Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern
  • The ethics of textuality
  • Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant modern
  • Speaking Swadeshi
  • Subramania Bharati and the Tamil modern
  • Elocutionary incandescence
  • Epilogue : home rule, the labor movement, and linguistic and political modernity
  • Afterword : oratory and the origins of politics / by Sudipta Kaviraj