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Bøker av Sumathi Ramaswamy

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  • - The Art of Disobedience
    av Sumathi Ramaswamy
    361,-

    Mohandas K. Gandhi has been described as 'an artist of non-violence,' crafting as he did a set of practices of the self and politics that earned him the mantle of Mahatma, 'the great soul.'

  • - The Conquest of the World as Globe
    av Sumathi Ramaswamy
    553,-

  • - Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970
    av Sumathi Ramaswamy
    388,-

    Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.

  • - Mapping Mother India
    av Sumathi Ramaswamy
    318,-

    A history of the role that images of Mother India played in helping a vast, heterogeneous population to imagine the Indian nation and associate themselves with it.

  • - Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories
    av Sumathi Ramaswamy
    355,-

    During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis. A sustained meditation on a lost place from a lost time, this elegantly written book is the first to explore Lemuria's incarnations across cultures, from Victorian-era science to Euro-American occultism to colonial and postcolonial India. The Lost Land of Lemuria widens into a provocative exploration of the poetics and politics of loss to consider how this sentiment manifests itself in a fascination with vanished homelands, hidden civilizations, and forgotten peoples. More than a consideration of nostalgia, it shows how ideas once entertained but later discarded in the metropole can travel to the periphery-and can be appropriated by those seeking to construct a meaningful world within the disenchantment of modernity. Sumathi Ramaswamy ultimately reveals how loss itself has become a condition of modernity, compelling us to rethink the politics of imagination and creativity in our day.

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