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Indiana University Press Language Emotion and Politics in South India by Lisa Mitchell
What makes someone willing to die not for a nation but for a language? In the mid20th century southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonialera changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of these events. As identities based on language came to appear natural the road was paved for the political reorganization of the Indian state along linguistic lines after independence.show more