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 influence on society. Supplementing his narrative with thorough archival work, Bernard Bate begins with Protestant missionaries' introduction of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacularization. What originally began as a format of religious speech became an essential political infrastructure used to galvanize support for new social imaginaries, from Indian independence to Tamil nationalism. Completed by a team of Bate's colleagues, this ethnography marries linguistic anthropology to performance studies and political history, illuminating new geographies of belonging in the modern era.

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Information

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Year

2021

ISBN

9781503628663

Edition

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Cultural & Social Anthropology

Index

Social Sciences

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Series Page
Dedication
Contents
Editors’ Preface, by E. Annamalai, Francis Cody, and Constantine V. Nakassis
Editors’ Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Citations
Bernard Bate’s Acknowledgments
Foreword: Speaking of Barney Bate,
Introduction: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern
Part I: The Protestant Modern
Part II: The Tamil Modern
Epilogue: Home Rule, the Labor Movement, and Linguistic and Political Modernity
Afterword: Oratory and the Origins of Politics, by Sudipta Kaviraj
Notes
References
Index