Tamil : : A Biography / / David Shulman.
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 lan...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Note on Transliteration
- Beginnings
- First Budding: Tamil from the Inside
- Second Budding: The Musical Self
- The Imperial Moment, Truth, and Sound
- Republic of Syllables
- A Tamil Modernity
- Beyond the Merely Modern
- Notes
- References
- Credits
- Index