Author: Publisher:
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Category : Tamil language
Languages : ta
Pages : 500
Book Description
A Tamil Vade-mecum, Or Guide to Ungrammatical Expressions Used in Ordinary Conversation
Author: A Tamil Vade-Mecum
Author: P. Singarabalaventhiram PillaiPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382311283
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
A Reference Guide to Tamil Studies
Author: Xavier S. Thani NayagamPublisher: Kuala Lumpur : University of Malaya Press; [sole distributors: Oxford University Press, London]
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Category : Tamil (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Contains 1300 titles to works in Western languages in such disciplines as: anthropology, archaeology, arts, social history, culture and civilization, language, and religion.
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.
Indian Modernities
Author: Nishat ZaidiPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000901750
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived, practiced, and performed in Indian literatures from the 18th to 20th century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Odia, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, and languages from Northeast India, which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through socio-historical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection, the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays, research works, and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English, Indian literatures, and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies, literary historians, linguists, and scholars of cultural studies across the globe.
Imperial Babel
Author: Padma RangarajanPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823263622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
At the heart of every colonial encounter lies an act of translation. Once dismissed as a derivative process, the new cultural turn in translation studies has opened the field to dynamic considerations of the contexts that shape translations and that, in turn, reveal translation’s truer function as a locus of power. In Imperial Babel, Padma Rangarajan explores translation’s complex role in shaping literary and political relationships between India and Britain. Unlike other readings that cast colonial translation as primarily a tool for oppression, Rangarajan’s argues that translation changed both colonizer and colonized and undermined colonial hegemony as much as it abetted it. Imperial Babel explores the diverse political and cultural consequences of a variety of texts, from eighteenth-century oriental tales to mystic poetry of the fin de siecle and from translation proper to its ethnological, mythographic, and religious variants. Searching for translation’s trace enables a broader, more complex understanding of intellectual exchange in imperial culture as well as a more nuanced awareness of the dialectical relationship between colonial policy and nineteenth-century literature. Rangarajan argues that while bearing witness to the violence that underwrites translation in colonial spaces, we should also remain open to the irresolution of translation, its unfixed nature, and its ability to transform both languages in which it works.
Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India
Author: Stuart H. BlackburnPublisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788178241494
Category : Folklore and nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Linguistic Survey of India
Author: Linguistic Survey of IndiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 722
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Document Raj
Author: Bhavani RamanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chennai (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Tamil Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Oriental Printed Books and ManuscriptsPublisher:
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Category : Tamil imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description