文档介绍：Passions of the Tongue
Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
Sumathi Ramaswamy
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Berkeley · Los Angeles · London
© 1997 The Regents of the University of California
Acknowledgments
This book would not have been possible without the assistance of several
individuals and institutions. Funding for its research and writing was provided by a
. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays DDRA Fellowship; a Charlotte W.
be Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation; a Rockefeller Residency Fellowship at the Institute on
Culture and Consciousness in South Asia, the University of Chicago; and a
Research Foundation grant by the University of Pennsylvania. I am grateful to all
these institutions, as well as to the Departments of History and South Asia
Regional Studies, University of Pennsylvania, for their financial and intellectual
support over the past few years.
I owe an immense debt of gratitude to numerous individuals across
Tamilnadu who have been gracious with their time and advice since the beginning
of this project in 1990: Professors A. A. Manavalan, P. Kothandaraman, I.
Maraimalai, and R. Ilavarasu; K. Sivathamby and A. Alagappan; Dr. M. S. S.
Pandian; Ganapathy Stapathi; Gurusami Stapathi; Mr. T. N. Ramachandran; Mr.
R. Muthukumaraswamy, managing director, the South India Shaiva Siddhanta
Works Publishing Society; and Mr. S. Ramakrishnan, director, Cre-A Publications.
I am also indebted to Dr. Cilampoli Chellappan, Mr. P. S. Mani, Mr. P. K.
Kothandapani, and Mr. L. K. Ramanujam for lending me books from their personal
collections; and to Kaviaracu Mudiyarasan for so graciously sharing his
unpublished memoirs. Finally, I owe special thanks to Dr. A. R.
Venkatachalapathy, fellow historian, for his valuable insights on Tamil literature
and politics; and to B. Krishnamoorthy and Dora, for their hospitality, for s