Sumathi Ramaswamy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, editor of Beyond Appearances: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (2003), and author of Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970 (California, 1997).
5 Ebooks von Sumathi Ramaswamy
Sumathi Ramaswamy: The Lost Land of Lemuria
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 pla …
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Sumathi Ramaswamy: Terrestrial Lessons
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British I …
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Sumathi Ramaswamy: Passions of the Tongue
Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tam …
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Martin Jay & Sumathi Ramaswamy: Empires of Vision
Empires of Vision brings together pieces by some of the most influential scholars working at the intersection of visual culture studies and the history of European imperialism. The essays and excerpt …
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Sumathi Ramaswamy: Goddess and the Nation
Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, "Mother India, " the Indian nation imagined as mother/godde …
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