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Religious Transactions in Colonial South India: Language, Translation, and the Making of Protestant Identity

by H. Israel
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780230105621
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 269
  • Original Price: EUR 49.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 2011
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Asia / South / General, Social History, and Christian Church / History

Religious Transactions in Colonial South India locates the "making" of Protestant identities in South India within several contesting discourses. It examines evolving attitudes to translation and translation practices in the Tamil literary and sacred landscapes initiated by early missionary translations of the Bible in Tamil. Situating the Tamil Bible firmly within intersecting religious, literary, and social contexts, Hephzibah Israel offers a fresh perspective on the translated Bible as an object of cultural transfer. She focuses on conflicts in three key areas of translation - locating a sacred lexicon, the politics of language registers and "standard versions," and competing generic categories - as discursive sites within which Protestant identities have been articulated by Tamils. By widening the cultural and historical framework of the Tamil Bible, this book is the first to analyze the links connecting language use, translation practices, and caste affiliations in the articulation of Protestant identities in India.

HEPHZIBAH ISRAEL has recently joined the University of Edinburgh, UK, as Lecturer in Translation Studies in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures. She previously taught literature in India in the Department of English, Lady Shri Ram College, University of Delhi.

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