Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in the Nineteenth-Century South India - Hardcover

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A true tour de force, this book documents the transformation of one Indian literature, Tamil, under the impact of colonialism and Western modernity. While Tamil is a living language, it is also India's second oldest classical language next to Sanskrit, and has a literary history that goes back over two thousand years. On the basis of extensive archival research, Sascha Ebeling tackles a host of issues pertinent to tamil elite literary production and consumption during the nineteenth century. These include the functioning and decline of traditional systems in which poet-scholars were patronized by religious institutions, landowners, and local kings, the anatomy of changes in textual practices, genres, styles, poetics, themes, tastes and audiences.

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