Author: William Taylor (orientalist, missionary.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Memoir of the First Centenary of the Earliest Protestant Mission at Madras
Author: William Taylor (orientalist, missionary.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Missions
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Catalogue of the Christian Vernacular Literature of India
Author: John MurdochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Publishers'
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Madrasiana
Author: William TaylorPublisher:
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Category : Chennai (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India
Author: H. IsraelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230120121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary translations of the Bible in Tamil. Situating the Tamil Bible firmly within intersecting religious, literary, and social contexts, Hephzibah Israel offers a fresh perspective on the translated Bible as an object of cultural transfer. She focuses on conflicts in three key areas of translation - locating a sacred lexicon, the politics of language registers and "standard versions," and competing generic categories - as discursive sites within which Protestant identities have been articulated by Tamils. By widening the cultural and historical framework of the Tamil Bible, this book is the first to analyze the links connecting language use, translation practices, and caste affiliations in the articulation of Protestant identities in India.
Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship
Author: C T IndraPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000900169
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book—an English translation of a key Tamiḻ book of literary and cultural criticism—looks at the construction of Tamiḻ scholarship through the colonial approach to Tamiḻ literature as evidenced in the first translations into English. The Tamiḻ original Atikāramum tamiḻp pulamaiyum: Tamiḻiliruntu mutal āṅkila moḻipeyarppukaḷ by N Govindarajan is a critique of the early attempts at the translations of Tamiḻ literary texts by East India Company officials, specifically by N E Kindersley. Kindersley, who was working as the Collector of South Arcot district in the late eighteenth century, was the first colonial officer to translate the Tamiḻ classic Tirukkuṟaḷ and the story of King Naḷa into English and to bring to the reading public in English the vibrant oral narrative tradition in Tamiḻ. F W Ellis in the nineteenth century brought in another dimension through his translation of the same classic. The book, thus, focuses on the attempts to translate the Tamiḻ literary works by the Company’s officials who emerged as the pioneering English Dravidianists and the impact of translations on the Tamiḻ reading community. Theoretically grounded, the book makes use of contemporary perspectives to examine colonial interventions and the operation of power relations in the literary and socio-cultural spheres. It combines both critical readings of past translations and intensive research work on Tamiḻ scholarship to locate the practice of literary works in South Asia and its colonial history, which then enables a conversation between Indian literary cultures. In this book, the author has not only explored all key scholarly sources as well as the commentaries that were used by the colonial officials, chiefly Kindersley, but also gives us an insightful critique of the Tamiḻ works. The highlight of the discussion of Dravidian Orientalism in this book is the intralinguistic opposition of the “mainstream” Tamiḻ literature in “correct/poetical” Tamiḻ and the folk literature in “vacana” Tamiḻ. This framework allows the translators to critically engage with the work. Annotated and with an Introduction and a Glossary, this translated work is a valuable addition to our reading of colonial South India. The book will be of interest to researchers of Tamiḻ Studies, Orientalism and Indology, translation studies, oral literature, linguistics, South Asian Studies, Dravidian Studies and colonial history.
Missionary Review of the World
Author: The Journal [afterw.] The Madras journal of literature and science, ed. by J.C. Morris
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Author: Madras literary societyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 814
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