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Paperback Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Volume 29 Book

ISBN: 0520208056

ISBN13: 9780520208056

Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Volume 29

(Part of the Studies on the History of Society and Culture Series)

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Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.

Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular...

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