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Knowledge, Perception, Language:
Tamil Literature and the Connected Histories of South Asia
Jennifer Clare, San Francisco, CA

Over its 2000-year history, Tamil literary and intellectual culture has always been deeply connected to other South Asian linguistic and literary traditions. Despite this long history of shared ideas and cultural practices, modern scholarship on both Tamil and South Asia has largely treated Tamil literature as distinct from, or marginal to, South Asian cultural history. This talk challenges that vision of the field, arguing...