Title Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis.

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Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description	1 online resource (xxxiii, 228 pages) : illustrations.
	text file
Series	South Asia in motion
	South Asia in motion.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Foreword : speaking of Barney Bate, or "Tamil oratory is new" / by A.R. Venkatachalapathy -- Introduction : Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern -- The ethics of textuality -- Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant modern -- Speaking Swadeshi -- Subramania Bharati and the Tamil modern -- Elocutionary incandescence -- Epilogue : home rule, the labor movement, and linguistic and political modernity -- Afterword : oratory and the origins of politics / by Sudipta Kaviraj
Summary	"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"-- Provided by publisher
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Subject	Tamil language -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
	Tamil language -- Political aspects.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Tamil language.
	Political oratory -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Political oratory.
	South Asia.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Rhetoric -- Political aspects.
	Tamil (Indic people) -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Tamil (Indic people) -- Politics and government.
	Tamil (Indic people)
	Language and culture -- South Asia -- History -- 20th century.
	Language and culture.
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Annamalai, E., editor.
	Cody, Francis, 1976- editor.
	Malarvizhi, editor.
	Nakassis, Constantine V., 1979- editor.
Other Form:	Print version: Bate, Bernard. Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021] 9781503628656 (DLC) 2020050468 (OCoLC)1201227655
ISBN	9781503628663 electronic book
	1503628663 electronic book
	9781503628656 paperback

Title Protestant textuality and the Tamil modern : political oratory and the social imaginary in South Asia / Bernard Bate ; edited by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, and Constantine V. Nakassis.

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