Publications of Sumathi Ramaswamy :chronological combined bibtex listing:
Sumathi Ramaswamy
Books
- S. Ramaswamy, Lost Land of Lemuria: Fabulous Geographies, Catastrophic Histories (University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004).
- S. Ramaswamy, Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997). Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award of The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, 1999; ACLS History e-book project: http://www.historyebook.org/
Books in Progress
- S. Ramaswamy, The Goddess and the Nation: Mapping Mother India (Durham, Duke University Press, Spring, 2010). [abs]
Edited Volumes
- S. Ramaswamy ed., "Barefoot across the Nation: Maqbool Fida Husain and the Idea of India" (Routledge India, August, 2010).
- S. Ramaswamy ed., "Beyond Appearances?: Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India" (Sage Publications, 2003).
Journal Articles
- S. Ramaswamy. "Maps, Mother/goddesses and Martyrdom in Modern India." Journal of Asian Studies 67:3 (2008): 1-35. [abs]
- S. Ramaswamy. "Conceit of the Globe in Mughal India." Comparative Studies in Society and History 49:4 (2007): 751-782.
- S. Ramaswamy. "Visualizing India’s Geo-body: Globes, Maps, Bodyscapes." Contributions to Indian Sociology 36:1 & 2 (2002): 157-195. Reprinted in Sumathi Ramswamy, ed. Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India. New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London: Sage, 2003, pp. 157-95. Abridged version reprinted in Indira Chandrasekhar and Peter C. Seel, eds. Body.city: Siting Contemporary Culture in India. Berlin and New Delhi: House of World Cultures and Tulika Books, 2003, pp. 219-241
- S. Ramaswamy. "Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India." Imago Mundi: A Periodical Review of Early Cartography 53 (2001): 97-114. Slightly modified version entitled, “Body Politic(s): Maps and Mother Goddesses in Modern India,” reprinted in Richard Davis, ed. Picturing the Nation. Delhi: Orient Longman, 2006, pp. 32-50
- S. Ramaswamy. "Remains of the Race: Archaeology, Nationalism, and the Yearning for Civilization in the Indus Valley." Indian Economic and Social History Review 38:2 (2001): 105-145.
- S. Ramaswamy. "History at Land’s End: Lemuria in Tamil Spatial Fables." Journal of Asian Studies 59:3 (2000): 575-602. Special Issue: Geographies at Work in Asian History
- S. Ramaswamy. "The Demoness, the Maid, the Whore, and the Good Mother: Contesting the National Language in India." International Journal of Sociology of Language 140 (1999): 1-28. Abridged version 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.
- S. Ramaswamy. "Catastrophic Cartographies: Mapping the Lost Continent of Lemuria." Representations 67 (1999): 92-129.
- S. Ramaswamy. "Sanskrit for the Nation." Modern Asian Studies 33:2 (1999): 339-383.
- S. Ramaswamy. "Body Language: The Somatics of Nationalism in Tamil India." Gender and History 10:1 (1998): 78-109.
- S. Ramaswamy. "The Language of the People in the World of Gods: Ideologies of Tamil before the Nation." Journal of Asian Studies 57:1 (1998): 66-92. Symposium: "Cultural Ideologies of Language in Pre-colonial India"
- S. Ramaswamy. "Virgin Mother, Beloved Other: The Erotics of Tamil Nationalism." Thamyris: Mythmaking from Past to Present 4:1 (1997): 9-39. Reprinted in Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, ed. Signposts: Gender and Modernity in India (New Delhi: Kali For Women, 1999; Rutgers University Press, 2001
- S. Ramaswamy. "The nation, the region, and the adventures of a Tamil hero." Contributions to Indian Sociology 28:2 (1994): 295-322.
- S. Ramaswamy. "En/gendering Language: The Poetics of Tamil Identity." Comparative Studies in Society and History 35:4 (October, 1993): 683-725.
- S. Ramaswamy. "Daughters of Tamil: Language and the Poetics of Womanhood in Tamilnadu, 1938-1940." South Asia Research 12:1 (May, 1992): 38-59.
Book Chapters
- S. Ramaswamy, "Foreword" in Erwin Neumayer and Christine Schelberger ed., Printed Icons from the Struggle for Independence in India (New Dehli:Oxford University Press, 2007), vii-xii.
- S. Ramaswamy, "Introduction" in Sumathi Ramaswamy ed., Beyond Appearances? Visual Practices and Ideologies in Modern India (Sage Publications, 2003), xiii-xxix.
Articles in a Collection
- S. Ramaswamy, "The Mahatma as Muse: An Image Essay on Gandhi in Popular Indian Visual Imagination" in Gayatri Sinha ed., Art and Visual Culture in India 1857-2007 (Marg Publications, 2009), 236-249.
- S. Ramaswamy, "Thinking Territory: Some Reflections" in Bed P. Giri and Prafulla Kar ed., Thinking Territory: Some Reflections (Pencraft International, 2008).
- S. Ramaswamy, "Of Gods and globes: The territorialisation of Hindu deities in Indian popular visual culture" in Jyotindra Jain ed., India’s Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images (Marg, Mumbai, 2008), 19-31. [abs]
- S. Ramaswamy, "Enshrining the map of India: Cartography, nationalism, and the politics of deity in Varanasi" in Martin Gaenszle and Jeorg Gengnagel ed., Visualized Space: Constructions of Locality and Cartographic Representations in Varanasi (Weisbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), 2006), 165-188.
- S. Ramaswamy, "Home away from Home? The Spatial Politics of Modern Tamil Identity." in Anne Feldhaus and Rajendra Vora ed., Regions and Regional Consciousness in India (Manohar Books, New Delhi, 2005), 150-168. [abs]
- S. Ramaswamy, "The Goddess and the Nation: Subterfuges of Antiquity, the Cunning of Modernity" in The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 549-566.
Other
- S. Ramaswamy. "When a language becomes a mother/goddess: An image essay on Tamil." (April, 2008). [html]