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02930cam a2200313 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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18990077 |
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20220308122209.0 |
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160217s2016 mau b 001 0 eng c |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674972292 (pbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MH/DLC |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
MH |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Modifying agency |
DLC |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
305.894811 SHU |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Shulman, David. |
| Dates associated with a name |
1949- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Tamil: a biography / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
David Shulman. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London, England : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
[2016] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 402 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Gratis<br/>Rs.595/-<br/> |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-383) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Beginnings: alapanam -- First budding, Tamil from the inside : pallavi -- Second budding, the musical self : anupallavi -- The imperial moment, truth, and sound : caranam 1 -- Republic of syllables : caranam 2 -- A Tamil modernity : caranam 3 -- Beyond the merely modern : ragamalika. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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, with its 80 million speakers, its ancient, classical past, and the profound richness of its cultural traditions, which spread throughout South Asia and beyond to Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia and, today, to a large Tamil Diaspora scattered around the globe. Presented in the format of a south Indian musical composition, the chapters take the reader through the whole of Tamil cultural history, from its beginnings at the end of the first millennium B.C. through the stunning poems of love and war known as "Sangam Poetry", the burst of intense religious movements in the mid-first-millennium A.D., the Chola period of imperial expansion, and into late-medieval and modern times, including present-day Tamil politics and the vast cultural production of Chennai, Madurai, and Tanjavur. The treasures of the Tamil language deserve a wide audience--thus the book is aimed at readers with no special knowledge of India no less than at speakers and connoisseurs of Tamil. Translated verses and spicy stories of poets, lovers, musicians, warriors and kings fill the pages of this book, which paints a wide-angle, panoramic canvas of one of the most creative civilizations in the history of South Asia as it evolved and transformed itself from the distant past up to our own generation.-- |
| Assigning source |
Provided by publisher |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tamil (Indic people) |
| General subdivision |
Intellectual life. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tamil (Indic people) |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tamil language |
| General subdivision |
History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tamil literature |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Tamil poetry |
| General subdivision |
History and criticism. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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India |
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Civilization. |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
