Sumathi Ramaswamy

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  • Passions of the Tongue
    Passions of the Tongue

    Passions of the tongue

    Sumathi Ramaswamy

    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 Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's mo...

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  • The lost land of lemuria

    Sumathi Ramaswamy

    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 ac...

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