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Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 /
Why 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 ling...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©1997.
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| Colección: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
29. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Why 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. |
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| Notas: | Title from e-book home page (viewed September 23, 2010). |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 303 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-293) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520918795 0520918797 0585106002 9780585106007 9780520208049 0520208048 9780520208056 0520208056 |