Table of Contents

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

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The charged emotional politics of language and identity in India

About the Author

Lisa Mitchell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Reviews

"Written with great zest and clarity, this book deepens our understanding of the complex relationships among linguistic identity, state formation, and individual political participation in South India." Martha Ann Selby, University of Texas "An exceptionally provocative work, unparalleled and unprecedented, that will certainly exert a profound impact on many areas of scholarship - even, I believe, outside of the area of Indian studies... A wide-ranging and exhilarating intellectual roller-coaster ride." Phillip B. Wagoner, Wesleyan University