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Title
Tamil : A Biography / David Shulman.
Author
ISBN
9780674974678
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2016]
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (386 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674974678 doi
Call Number
DS432
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.894/811
Summary
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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Access limited to authorized users.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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text file PDF
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
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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
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