Preferred Citation: Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5199n9v7/


 
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Figure 1. “Tamiḻttāy.” Color poster, 1981. Courtesy Professor A. Alagappan, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.
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Figure 2. “Tamiḻttāy.” Color poster, c. 1941. Courtesy Kamban Kazhagam, Karaikkudi.
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Figure 3. Tamiḻttāy. Cover of the literary journal Tamiḻ Vaṭṭam, 1967. Courtesy Maraimalai Adigal Library, Madras.
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Figure 4. “Bhārata Mātā.” Contemporary picture postcard. Rashtriya Swamsevak Sangh, Karnatak.
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Figure 5. “Rajagopalachari Hurls the Knife of Hindi at Tamiḻttāy.” Cartoon, Viṭutalai, 18 May 1938. Courtesy Periyar Library, Madras.
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Figure 6. “Rajagopalachari’s Bravado: The Dishonoring of Tamiḻttāy.” Cartoon, Kuṭi Aracu, 19 December 1937. Courtesy Periyar Library, Madras.
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Figure 7. Tamiḻttāy sheds tears over Chinnasami, Sivalingam, and Aranganathan. Cover of Muttāram, 15 March 1966. Courtesy Anna Arivalayam Library, Madras.
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Figure 8. Poem on Tamil with drawing of female figure, presumably Tamiḻttāy, 1971. Souvenir of second conference of Ulakat Tamiḻk Kaḻakam (World Tamil Association), 1971. Courtesy Professor R. Ilavarasu.
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Figure 9. “Tamiḻaṉṉai.” Official government of Tamilnadu poster, 1987. Tamil Arasu Press, Madras.
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Figure 10. Tamiḻttāy in tears. Cartoon, Muracoli, 19 January 1965. Courtesy Anna Arivalayam Library, Madras.
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Figure 11. Tamiḻttāy. Statue in her temple in Karaikkudi, 1993. Courtesy Kamban Kazhagam, Karaikkudi.
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Figure 12. Tamiḻttāy’s temple, Karaikkudi. Photograph, 1993. Courtesy Kamban Kazhagam, Karaikkudi.

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Preferred Citation: Ramaswamy, Sumathi. Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1997 1997. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft5199n9v7/