Tamil : a biography
by David Shulman.
- Cambridge : BPUP, 2016.
- 402 p.
Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Beginnings Alapana Chapter 2. First Budding:Tamil from the Inside Pallavi Chapter 3. Second Budding:The Musical Self Anupallavi Chapter 4. The Imperial Moment, Truth, and Sound Caranam 1 Chapter 5. Republic of Syllables Caranam 2 Chapter 6. A Tamil Modernity Caranam 3 Chapter 7. Beyond the Merely Modern Ragamalika Notes References Credits Index