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Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.

Passions of the Tongue

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    A Paperback / softback by Sumathi Ramaswamy

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: 20/11/1997
      ISBN13: 9780520208056, 978-0520208056
      ISBN10: 0520208056
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      Book Synopsis
      Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.

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