Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Making of a Mother Tongue (Contemporary Indian Studies)

by Lisa Mitchell (Author)

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  2009

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  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.