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Following Patricia Uberoi, who has analysed iconography and female representation in general, it is hard not to see Tamil Thai as a classic example of the objectification of woman as something to be appropriated, possessed and exchanged in the social relations of cooperation and competition among men. Visible and valorised she may be, but she is very much a figment of the patriarchal imaginations of modernity in colonial and postcolonial India, says historian Sumathi Ramasamy in her book Passions of the Tongue.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 03:22:39 +0000

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