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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (Studies on the History of Society & Culture)
  
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Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (Studies on the History of Society & Culture) (Hardcover)

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This text examines the ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these imaginings to their experience of colonial and postcolonial modernity. It particularly focuses on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother and maiden in order to explore Tamil devotion.
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