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SUMATHI RAMASWAMY 
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Sumathi Ramaswamy
(1958 - )
Sumathi Ramaswamy was Professor of History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and as of July 2007, is Professor of History at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Her interest in visual culture began in the 1990s when she wrote about the visualizing of the Tamil language as goddess, queen and mother in her book Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India (University of California Press, 1997). She also analyzed popular visual representations of Hindi as a demoness in her study of the demonization of the language by Tamil nationalists in an essay entitled "Battling the Demoness in Tamil India." In Crispin Bates, ed. Beyond Representations: Colonial and Post-Colonial Constructions of Indian Identity. Delhi: Oxford University Press (2006), pp. 123-150. Her most recent monograph is titled "The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India" (Duke University Press, 2010). She is the editor of "Beyond Appearances: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India" (Sage, 2003) and "Barefoot Across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India" (Routledge, to be released September 2010). "The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories" (University of California, 2004).
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The Lost Land of Lemuria Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories 
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