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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780674974678

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674974678

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974678

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674974678

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Format: 1 online resource (417 pages)

ISBN: 0-674-97465-4 , 0-674-97467-0

Content: 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.

Note: 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 , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-05992-1

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674974678