Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India

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Shifting emphasis from the effects to the uses of print, this book examines the intersection of printing and folklore in the context of colonial south India. It provides a history of printed books in Tamiland argues that printing must be examined alongside a set of literary practices that were largely set in train by the encounter with Europeans and European languages. The author examines the beginnings of the press in this country, ranging over three centuries of book publishing: from the activites of the early missionaries, to publishing at the College of Fort St. George, as well as local respones through print.

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Stuart Blackburn, who teaches at SOAS in London, is the author of four previous books on Tamil floklore and literature.