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TAPSA: Rumi’s Masnavi in South Asia: From Manuscript to Print

On April 18, 2024 at 5:00 pm
Apr
23

TAPSA: Scattering Pearls: Music, Emotion, and Sociality in the Early Modern Deccan

On April 23, 2024 at 5:00 pm
May
02

Southern Asia Seminar: Rated A: Soft-Porn Cinema and Mediations of Desire in India

On May 2, 2024 at 5:00 pm
May
09

TAPSA: Friendship on the Road to War: China, India, and the 1962 War

On May 9, 2024 at 5:00 pm
May
15

Vivekananda Lecture: Thinking Through Space: A Multilingual Approach to Literary History

On May 15, 2024 at 5:00 pm

From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit

Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 5:00pm

Foster 103

South Asia Seminar: A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Madras Institute of Development Studies “From Pulavar to Professor: The Changing Status of the Tamil Pandit” This paper traces the changing status of Tamil pulavars or pandits in colonial Tamil Nadu. Following Macaulay’s minute the policy of imparting Western education undermined the status of language teachers. Seen as relics of a lost world and impediments to modernity they were objects of ridicule. But Tamil identity politics empowered them giving them an enhanced cultural status.

Dates:
Thursday, October 18, 2018 – 5:00pm
Foster 103