New Books in South Asian Studies · New Books Network
Margherita Trento et al., "For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai" (UnionPress, 2025)
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Host Raj Balkaran reflects that Tamil possesses a 'unique gravitas' and is not just a language but an entire cultural world.
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A grounded account of Tamil's multilingual life and the scholarship gathered around it.
The conversation treats Tamil as a language shaped by contact, not enclosure, and uses the new open-access volume to trace how literary forms, meters, and scholarly methods travel across languages and regions.
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