Civaka Cintamani
Author: Pulavar
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Published: 1994
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Tamil
Author: David Shulman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-09-26
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 0674974654
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSpoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil, emphasizing how its speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history.
Passions of the Tongue
Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-09-01
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0520918797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy 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 metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic, "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these multiple imaginings to their experience of colonial and post-colonial modernity. Focusing in particular on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother, and maiden, Ramaswamy explores the pious, filial, and erotic aspects of Tamil devotion. She considers why, as its speakers sought political and social empowerment, metaphors of motherhood eventually came to dominate representations of the language.
The Life and Times of Pratapa Mudaliar
Author: Vētanāyakam Piḷḷai
Publisher: Katha
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9788189020422
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished more than 125 years ago, The Life and Times of Pratapa Mudaliar, is an adventurous journey to the realm of folk tales and fables, mythology and morality. A colourful expedition from one story to another, it moves from humour to satire, from failure to success, from tears to laughter. Splendidly translated by Meenakshi Tyagarajan and with an Afterword by Sascha Ebeling, Katha proudly presents the very first Tamil novel.
Questioning Ramayanas
Author: Paula Richman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780520220744
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA wide-ranging examination of the many different versions of India's greatest epic, the Ramayana, focusing on versions that subvert the dominant readings of the work.
Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 386
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransitions – History & Civics ICSE Class 9
Author: Monica Bose, Sheila Bhattacharya
Publisher: Vikas Publishing House
Published:
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9325967561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTransitions brings alive History and Civics for learners and transforms these subjects into an exciting journey. The books strictly follow the guidelines of the Inter State Board for Anglo-Indian Education and the ICSE Board. The series fosters a sense of history in young learners by reconstructing the past and introduces young minds to people and events from the past. It also makes students feel responsible towards their surroundings and fellow beings.
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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
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Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 932619504X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManuscript, Print and Memory
Author: Eva Maria Wilden
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2014-11-10
Total Pages: 431
ISBN-13: 3110387794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe ancient Tamil poetic corpus of the Caṅam ("The Academy") is a national treasure for Tamilians and a battle-ground for linguists and historians of politics, culture and literature. Going back to oral predecessors probably dating back to the beginning of the first millennium, it has had an extremely rich and variegated history. Collected into anthologies and endowed with literary theories and voluminous commentaries, it became the centre-piece of the Tamil literary canon, associated with the royal court of the Pandya dynasty in Madurai. Its decline began in the late middle ages, and by the late 17th century it had fallen into near oblivion, before being rediscovered at the beginning of the print era. The present study traces the complex historical process of its transmission over some 2000 years, using and documenting a wide range of sources, in particular surviving manuscripts, the early prints, the commentaries of the literary and grammatical traditions and a vast range of later literature that creates a web of inter-textual references and quotations.
