Language of the People in the World of Gods: Ideologies of Tamil before the Nation
- 1 February 1998
- journal article
- Published by Duke University Press in Journal of Asian Studies
- Vol. 57 (1), 66-92
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2659024
Abstract
Sumathi Ramaswamy focuses on texts written in praise of Tamil to highlight its status as the language of power and prestige and its construction as the "Other" to the Sanskritic tradition, as well as to reflect on ideologies of language before and after the coming of the nation.Keywords
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