For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai

Margherita Trento; Constantine V. Nakassis; Navaneethakrishnan Govindarajan; Sascha Ebeling

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-338-7

For the Love of Tamil: Essays in Honor of E. Annamalai

Authors

Margherita Trento

École des hautes études des sciences sociales

Constantine V. Nakassis

University of Chicago

Navaneethakrishnan Govindarajan

American College in Madurai

Sascha Ebeling

University of Chicago

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-338-7

Keywords:

Tamil, interdisciplinarity, India, Sri Lanka, language policies, literature

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Series Minor

ISSN: 1824-6109

Pages: 540

Language: English

Abstract: For the Love of Tamil celebrates the life and work of E. Annamalai (born 1938), the most prominent Tamil linguist of his generation. Spanning six decades and multiple continents, his scholarship ranges from formal analyses of Tamil syntax and semantics to studies of diglossia, pedagogy, language politics and Tamil poetics and literature. This volume collects contributions from leading scholars in various disciplines related to Tamil studies. Together, they reflect the intellectual breadth and disciplinary range of Annamalai’s work, covering classical and modern Tamil literature, grammatical traditions, linguistic analysis, sociolinguistics, and cultural history. They also highlight the lasting importance of Annamalai’s scholarship and demonstrate how his rigorous yet comprehensive approach to Tamil has influenced the study of language, literature, and society.

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Author Biographies

Margherita Trento, École des hautes études des sciences sociales

Margherita Trento is a historian and Associate Professor at the École des hautes études des sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris. She is the author of Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century(2022) alongside essays on the history of Tamil literary and religious institutions.

Constantine V. Nakassis, University of Chicago

Constantine V. Nakassis is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South India (2016) and Onscreen/Offscreen (2023), as well as numerous articles on semiotics, mass media, youth culture, and branding and counterfeiting.

Navaneethakrishnan Govindarajan, American College in Madurai

Navaneethakrishnan Govindarajan is Associate Professor in the Department of Tamil at the American College in Madurai. He is the author of Colonial Authority and Tamil Scholarship: A Study of the First English Translations, published in Tamil (2016) and English (2023). He has published two other books and many articles in Tamil.

Sascha Ebeling, University of Chicago

Sascha Ebeling is Associate Professor of Tamil at the University of Chicago. He is theauthor of Colonizing the Realm of Words: The Transformation of Tamil Literature in Nineteenth-Century South India(2010) and essays on pre-modern and modern Tamil literature.