"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"--
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"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"--
"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured."-- "Throughout history, speech and storytelling have u…
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 inf…
This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.
"By tracing the genealogy of Tamil political oratory alongside the development of political modernity in South Asia, the author argues that speech and rhetoric shape how history unfolds and how a social order is structured"--
This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transformations in society at large. It explores the aesthetics of Tamil oratory and its vital relationship to one of the key institutions …