Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. EDITORS’ PREFACE ix
4. EDITORS’ ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii
5. NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION AND CITATIONS xv
6. BERNARD BATE’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii
7. SPEAKING OF BARNEY BATE xxi
8. Introduction: Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern 1
9. PART I THE PROTESTANT MODERN 25
10. 1 The Ethics of Textuality 27
11. 2 Arumuga Navalar and the Protestant Modern 42
12. PART II THE TAMIL MODERN
13. 3 Speaking Swadeshi, Madras 1907 61
14. 4 Subramania Bharati and the Tamil Modern 85
15. 5 Elocutionary Incande 110
16. Epilogue: Home Rule, the Labor Movement, and Linguistic and Political Modernity 141
17. Afterword: Oratory and the Origins of Politics 153
18. NOTES 177
19. REFERENCES 203
20. INDEX 217