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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Tamil Civilization
Author: Tamil
Author: David ShulmanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. Impetuous, musical, whimsical, in constant flux, Tamil is a living entity, and this is its biography. Two stories animate Shulman’s narrative. The first concerns the evolution of Tamil’s distinctive modes of speaking, thinking, and singing. The second describes Tamil’s major expressive themes, the stunning poems of love and war known as Sangam poetry, and Tamil’s influence as a shaping force within Hinduism. Shulman tracks Tamil from its earliest traces at the end of the first millennium BCE through the classical period, 850 to 1200 CE, when Tamil-speaking rulers held sway over southern India, and into late-medieval and modern times, including the deeply contentious politics that overshadow Tamil today. Tamil is more than a language, Shulman says. It is a body of knowledge, much of it intrinsic to an ancient culture and sensibility. “Tamil” can mean both “knowing how to love”—in the manner of classical love poetry—and “being a civilized person.” It is thus a kind of grammar, not merely of the language in its spoken and written forms but of the creative potential of its speakers.
Glimpses of Tamil Civilization
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Category : Tamil (Indic people).
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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History of the Tamils
Author: P. T. Srinivasa IyengarPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120601451
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Tamil Culture
Author: A. Kiruṭṭin̲an̲Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
At a time the Tamils have forgotten their glorious past, the hights of their achievements in political, social, cultural and civilization fields, when they have lost even their sense of self respect, this book apart from being a treasure of culture, I consider, is one that awakens them, reminds them and rekindles their interest to know about their past and implores them to create a greater feature. I fervently hope that the vision of the author is realized and all our wishes filfilled. I am sure that the sincere and enlightened work serve the purpose and the society. It has website effect scanning every minutes detail of the Tamil culture. We are sure when you come out you would be a scholar to be sought after. Hardbound
An Introduction to Tamil Culture
Author: Kiruṣṇā Ñān̲acūriyan̲Publisher:
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Category : Tamil (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 310
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The Sri Lankan Tamils
Author: Chelvadurai ManogaranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000306003
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Within the larger context of bitter ethnic strife in Sri Lanka, this timely volume assembles a multidisciplinary group of scholars to explore the central issue of Tamil identity in this South Asian country. Bringing historical, sociological, political, and geographical perspectives to bear on the subject, the contributors analyze various aspects of
Recipes for Immortality
Author: Richard S WeissPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195335236
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
In this book, Weiss seeks to illuminate the present success of traditional doctors by examining the ways that siddha practitioners in Tamil South India have won the trust and patronage of patients. They do this, he shows, by offering affiliation to a timeless and pure community, the fantasy of a Tamil utopia, and even the prospect of immortality.
Ritual, Caste, and Religion in Colonial South India
Author: Michael BergunderPublisher: Primus Books
ISBN: 9380607210
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Heritage and Ruptures in Indian Literature, Culture and Cinema
Author: Cornelius CrowleyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443878545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This book investigates the millennial history of the Indian subcontinent. Through the various methods adopted, the objects and moments examined, it questions various linguistic, literary and artistic appropriations of the past, to address the conflicting comprehensions of the present and also the figuring/imagining of a possible future. The volume engages with this general cultural condition, in relation both to the subcontinent’s current “synchronic” reality and to certain aspects of the culture’s underlying diachronic determinations. It also reveals how the multiple heritages are negotiated through the subcontinent’s long-term sedimentational history. It scrutinizes both conservative interpretations of heritage and a possibly incremental enrichment, and the additional possibility of a mode of appropriation open to a dialectic of creative destruction, in which the patrimonial imperative is challenged, leaving room for processes of renewal and rejuvenation. The collection is organized around four major topics: Orientalism, addressed by way of the Tamil Epic Manimekalai, through the evocation of the Hastings Circle and views on a possible Hindu-Muslim unity sketched out by Sayyid Ahmed Khan; modernism in Indian and Burmese texts written in English; pictorial art, through a consideration of the work of British Asian and Indian film directors; and, finally, the current state of a body of critical thinking on gender.