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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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India
• Subtitle: The Making of a Mother Tongue
• Author: Lisa Mitchell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780253220691
• ISBN: 0253220696
• ID: 04871007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 474 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 157 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. March 2009

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