Description: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil ModernPolitical Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia Author(s): Bernard Bate, E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, Constantine Nakassis Format: Paperback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9781503628656, 978-1503628656 Synopsis Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the last three centuries, charting the development of political oratory and its influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.
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Book Title: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2021
Type: Textbook
Author: Bernard Bate
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: South Asia in Motion
Format: Paperback
