Civaka Cintamani
Author | : Pulavar |
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Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Tamil literature |
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Author | : Pulavar |
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Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Tamil literature |
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Author | : David Shulman |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2016-09-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674974654 |
Spoken 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.
Author | : Sumathi Ramaswamy |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2023-09-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0520918797 |
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 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.
Author | : Vētanāyakam Piḷḷai |
Publisher | : Katha |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Tamil fiction |
ISBN | : 9788189020422 |
Published 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.
Author | : Paula Richman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520220744 |
A 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.
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Publisher | : PediaPress |
Total Pages | : 521 |
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Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Asia |
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Author | : Monica Bose, Sheila Bhattacharya |
Publisher | : Vikas Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9325967561 |
Transitions 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 |
Total Pages | : 225 |
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ISBN | : 932619504X |
Author | : Eva Maria Wilden |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2014-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3110387794 |
The 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.