Passions of the tongue : language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
Why would love for their language lead men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This book analyzes the discourses of love, labour, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1997