Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia
Material type: ArticleLanguage: English Series: South Asia in MotionPublication details: Stanford University Press 2021Description: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)ISBN:- 9781503628663
- 9781503628663
- 9781503628656
Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Electronic edition | Bucheon University Library | History | OAPEN | 930.85 S75 | Not for loan | Смотреть (pdf) | 1009673 |
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Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.
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