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Informationen zum Autor Lisa Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence. Zusammenfassung What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the 1950s and 1960s, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of the Telugu language. This title traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Spelling Introduction: A New Emotional Commitment to Language 1. From Language of the Land to Language of the People: Geography, Language, and Community in Southern India 2. Making a Subject of Language 3. Making the Local Foreign: Shared Language and History in Southern India 4. From Pandit to Primer: Pedagogy and Its Mediums 5. From the Art of Memory to the Art of Translation: Making Languages Parallel 6. Martyrs in the Name of Language? Death and the Making of Linguistic Passion Conclusion: Language as a New Foundational Category Notes Bibliography Index
