Tamil : a biography /

This book explores two millennia of south Indian Tamil civilization, with a special emphasis on the way Tamil speakers and literati understood the unique features of their language and the major cultural themes articulated in Tamil over this long time span. Tamil is one of the great world languages,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shulman, David Dean, 1949- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016]
Subjects:
Tamil (Indic people) > Intellectual life.
Tamil (Indic people) > History.
Tamil language > History.
Tamil literature > History and criticism.
Tamil poetry > History and criticism.
Tamouls > Vie intellectuelle.
Tamouls > Histoire.
Tamoul (Langue) > Histoire.
Littérature tamoule > Histoire et critique.
Poésie tamoule > Histoire et critique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Historical & Comparative.
Civilization.
Tamil (Indic people)
Tamil language.
Tamil literature.
Tamil poetry.
India > Civilization.
Inde > Civilisation.
India.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings: alapanam
  • First budding, Tamil from the inside : pallavi
  • Second budding, the musical self : anupallavi
  • The imperial moment, truth, and sound : caranam 1
  • Republic of syllables : caranam 2
  • A Tamil modernity : caranam 3
  • Beyond the merely modern : ragamalika.

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