Tamil : a biography /

This book explores two millennia of south Indian Tamil civilization, with a special emphasis on the way Tamil speakers and literati understood the unique features of their language and the major cultural themes articulated in Tamil over this long time span. Tamil is one of the great world languages,...

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Main Author:	Shulman, David Dean, 1949- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2016]
Subjects:	Tamil (Indic people) > Intellectual life. Tamil (Indic people) > History. Tamil language > History. Tamil literature > History and criticism. Tamil poetry > History and criticism. India > Civilization. Civilization. Tamil (Indic people) Tamil language. Tamil literature. Tamil poetry. India. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.