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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043289720
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043284929
Author : J.M. Nallasami Pillai,V.V. Raman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120608844
A Monthly Journal Devoted To Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Science Etc.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : UOM:39015043647968
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105218321763
Author : Michael Bergunder,Heiko Frese,Ulrike Schröder
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 9789380607214
Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520931855
During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria’s incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery—and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.
Author : Timothy Brook,André Schmid
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0472087649
As increasing attention is drawn to globalization, questions arise about the fate of "the nation," a political and social unit that for centuries has seemed the common-sense way to organize the world. In Nation Work, Timothy Brook and Andr Schmid draw together eight essays that use historical examples from Asian countries--China, India, Korea, and Japan--to enrich our understandings of the origin and growth of nations. Asia provides fertile ground for this inquiry, the volume argues, because in Asia the history of the modern nation has been inseparable from global influences in the form of Western imperialism. Yet, while the impetus for building a modern national identity may have come from the need to fashion a favorable place in a world system dominated by Western nations, those engaged in nationalist enterprises found their particular voices more often in relation to tensions within Asia than in relation to more generic tensions between Asia and the West. With topics ranging from public health measures in nineteenth-century Japan through textual scholarship of Tamil intellectuals, the willful division of Korea's history from China's, the development of China's cotton industry, and the meaning of "postnational-ism" for Chinese artists, the essays reveal the fascinating array of sites at which nation work can take place. This will be essential reading for historians and social scientists interested in Asia. Timothy Brook is Professor of History, Stanford University. Andr Schmid is Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto.
Author : Eugene F. Irschick
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520918795
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism. Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic, "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways in which Tamil was imagined by its speakers and connects these multiple imaginings to their experience of colonial and post-colonial modernity. Focusing in particular on the transformation of the language into a goddess, mother, and maiden, Ramaswamy explores the pious, filial, and erotic aspects of Tamil devotion. She considers why, as its speakers sought political and social empowerment, metaphors of motherhood eventually came to dominate representations of the language.
Author : Sree Padma
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739190029
Popular religion in village India is overwhelmingly dominated by goddess worship. Goddesses can be nationally well-known like Durga or Kali, or they can be an obscure deity who is only known in a particular rural locale. The origins of a goddess can be both ancient—with many transitions or amalgamations with other cults having occurred along the way—and very recent. While some have tribal origins, others sprout up overnight due to a vivid dream. Inventing and Reinventing the Goddess: Contemporary Iterations of Hindu Divinities on the Move looks at the nature of how and why goddesses are invented and reinvented historically in India and how social hierarchy, gender differences, and modernity play roles in these emerging religious phenomena.
Author : Pamela Lothspeich
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000912166
Reconceptualizing the epic genre and opening it up to a world of storytelling, The Epic World makes a timely and bold intervention toward understanding the human propensity to aestheticize and normalize mass deployments of power and violence. The collection broadly considers three kinds of epic literature: conventional celebratory tales of conquest that glorify heroism, especially male heroism; anti-epics or stories of conquest from the perspectives of the dispossessed, the oppressed, the despised, and the murdered; and heroic stories utilized for imperialist or nationalist purposes. The Epic World illustrates global patterns of epic storytelling, such as the durability of stories tied to religious traditions and/or to peoples who have largely "stayed put"; the tendency to reimagine and retell stories in new ways over centuries; and the imbrication of epic storytelling and forms of colonialism and imperialism, especially those perpetuated and glorified by Euro-Americans over the past 500 years, resulting in unspeakable and immeasurable harms to humans, other living beings, and the planet Earth. The Epic World is a go-to volume for anyone interested in epic literature in a global framework. Engaging with powerful stories and ways of knowing beyond those of the predominantly white Global North, this field-shifting volume exposes the false premises of "Western civilization" and "Classics," and brings new questions and perspectives to epic studies.
Author : S A Abbasi
Publisher : New Age International
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophers
ISBN : 8122411223
Author : Bertold Spuler
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Tamil literature
ISBN : 9004041907
Author : Srilata Raman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317744733
This book analyses the religious ideology of a Tamil reformer and saint, Ramalinga Swamigal of the 19th century and his posthumous reception in the Tamil country and sheds light on the transformation of Tamil religion that both his works and the understanding of him brought about. The book traces the hagiographical and biographical process by which Ramalinga Swamigal is shifted from being considered an exemplary poet-saint of the Tamil Śaivite bhakti tradition to a Dravidian nationalist social reformer. Taking as a starting point Ramalinga’s own writing, the book presents him as inhabiting a border zone between early modernity and modernity, between Hinduism and Christianity, between colonialism and regional nationalism, highlighting the influence of his teachings on politics, particularly within Dravidian cultural and political nationalism. Simultaneously, the book considers the implication of such an hagiographical process for the transformation of Tamil religion in the period between the 19th –mid-20th centuries. The author demonstrates that Ramalinga Swamigal’s ideology of compassion, cīvakāruṇyam, had not only a long genealogy in pre-modern Tamil Śaivism but also that it functioned as a potentially emancipatory ethics of salvation and caste critique not just for him but also for other Tamil and Dalit intellectuals of the 19th century. This book is a path-breaking study that also traces the common grounds between the religious visions of two of the most prominent subaltern figures of Tamil modernity – Iyothee Thass and Ramalingar. It argues that these transformations are one meaningful way for a religious tradition to cope with and come to terms with the implications of historicization and the demands of colonial modernity. It is, therefore, a valuable contribution to the field of religion, South Asian history and literature and Subaltern studies. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315794518 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.