Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Literature in History
- 2 Interrogating ‘Rediscovery’ and an Enquiry into the Transmission of Sangam Literature during the Pre-modern Period
- 3 Patrons and Networks of Patronage in the Publication of Tamil Classics
- 4 From Reproduction to Reception: The Writing of Literary Histories
- 5 Orientalism, Tamil Classics and the Organisational Politics
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: Literature in History
- 2 Interrogating ‘Rediscovery’ and an Enquiry into the Transmission of Sangam Literature during the Pre-modern Period
- 3 Patrons and Networks of Patronage in the Publication of Tamil Classics
- 4 From Reproduction to Reception: The Writing of Literary Histories
- 5 Orientalism, Tamil Classics and the Organisational Politics
- 6 Conclusion
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Manuscripts, Memory and HistoryClassical Tamil Literature in Colonial India, pp. i - ivPublisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2014