Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai [and three others].

This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.

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Superior document:South Asia in Motion
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Place / Publishing House:Stanford, California : : Stanford University Press,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:South Asia in Motion
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Editors' Preface
  • Editors' Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Citations
  • Bernard Bate's Acknowledgments
  • Foreword: Speaking of Barney Bate
  • Introduction: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
  • PART I: THE PROTESTANT MODERN
  • 1 The Ethics of Textuality
  • 2 Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant Modern
  • PART II: THE TAMIL MODERN
  • 3 Speaking Swadeshi, Madras 1907
  • 4 Subramania Bharati and the Tamil Modern
  • 5 Elocutionary Incandescence
  • Epilogue: Home Rule, the Labor Movement, and Linguistic and Political Modernity
  • Afterword: Oratory and the Origins of Politics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index.