发表于2024-12-02
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
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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. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to language that lay behind these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural, the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence.
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书