Colonizing the realm of words : the transformation of Tamil literature in nineteenth-century South India /
Ebeling, Sascha.
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2010.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität zu Köln, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-340) and index.
Introduction -- Mapping the universe of the pulavar -- Pulavars and potentates : structures of literary patronage at the Zamindars' courts and beyond -- Towards the modern Tamil author : the colonial critique of the "vernacular" and mayuram -- The emergence of the Tamil novel -- Epilogue.
Tamil literature
Literature and society