"An important and original book providing a completely new perspective on the intellectual and cultural history of southern India. . . . Sumathi Ramaswamy has both produced a major work of comparative history and made the finest scholarly contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern Tamil Nadu to date."--Nicholas B. Dirks, author of "The Hollow Crown" "The most thorough account of the history of the symbolic profusion of a language--any language--I have ever read . . . The scholarship is extraordinary, ...
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"An important and original book providing a completely new perspective on the intellectual and cultural history of southern India. . . . Sumathi Ramaswamy has both produced a major work of comparative history and made the finest scholarly contribution to the intellectual and cultural history of modern Tamil Nadu to date."--Nicholas B. Dirks, author of "The Hollow Crown" "The most thorough account of the history of the symbolic profusion of a language--any language--I have ever read . . . The scholarship is extraordinary, and Ramaswamy is quite likely the most knowledgeable on this subject in the whole of India--nay, the world."--E. Valentine Daniel, author of "Charred Lullabies: Chapters in an Anthropography of Violence"
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Add this copy of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Burnt_Biscuit_Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newnan, GA, UNITED STATES, published 1997 by University of California Press.
