Author: P. V. Manickam Naicker
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Category : Tamil language
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: Ramananda Chatterjee
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1112

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Includes section "Reviews and notices of books".

Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520918797
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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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: David Shulman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674059921
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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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.

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Category : Theosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 1472

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Author: Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520240324
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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This is a fascinating study of Lemuria--a mythical continent which was once believed to bridge the land masses of India and Africa millennia ago before ultimately sinking into the Indian sea.

Author: T. R. Sesha Iyengar
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120601352
Category : Civilization, Dravidian
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Richard S Weiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190450517
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272

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Despite the global spread of Western medical practice, traditional doctors still thrive in the modern world. In Recipes for Immortality, Richard Weiss illuminates their continued success by examining the ways in which siddha medical practitioners in Tamil South India win the trust and patronage of patients. While biomedicine might alleviate a patient's physical distress, siddha doctors offer their clientele much more: affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality. They speak of a golden age of Tamil civilization and of traditional medicine, drawing on broader revivalist formulations of a pure and ancient Tamil community. Weiss analyzes the success of siddha doctors, focusing on how they have successfully garnered authority and credibility. While shedding light on their lives, vocations, and aspirations, Weiss also documents the challenges that siddha doctors face in the modern world, both from a biomedical system that claims universal efficacy, and also from the rival traditional medicine, ayurveda, which is promoted as the national medicine of an autonomous Indian state. Drawing on ethnographic data; premodern Tamil texts on medicine, alchemy, and yoga; government archival resources; college textbooks; and popular literature on siddha medicine and on the siddhar yogis, he presents an in-depth study of this traditional system of knowledge, which serves the medical needs of millions of Indians. Weiss concludes with a look at traditional medicine at large, and demonstrates that siddha doctors, despite resent trends toward globalization and biomedicine, reflect the wider political and religious dimensions of medical discourse in our modern world. Recipes for Immortality proves that medical authority is based not only on physical effectiveness, but also on imaginative processes that relate to personal and social identities, conceptions of history, secrecy, loss, and utopian promise.

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Category : Tamil literature
Languages : en
Pages : 716

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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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