1st Edition

Colonialism, Orientalism and the Dravidian Languages

By K. Venkateswarlu Copyright 2012
282 Pages
by Routledge India

282 Pages
by Routledge India

282 Pages
by Routledge India

The Dravidian language family is marked historically by a protracted struggle between Tamil and its aggressively assertive supremacy, and the consequent peripheralizing of other majoritarian languages of the region. This book looks at the development of Telugu — with its unique grammatical and lexical tradition as instrumental in the construction of the concept of the Dravidian language family in... Read more
Foreword. Preface and Acknowledgements 1. The Problem 2. Historical Context and Institutional Matrix 3. The Dravidian Language Family 4. Telugu Grammatical Tradition 5. Telugu Language -- Site for Formulation of Dravidian Language Family 6. Orientalism. Bibliography. About the Author. Index.

Biography

K. Venkateswarlu was formerly Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.