Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India - The Making of a Mother Tongue

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Mitchell, Mitchell Lisa
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.03.2009
• EAN: 9780253353016
• ISBN: 978-0-253-35301-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Contemporary Indian Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous