Caught in Translation: Ideologies of literary language in Kerala’s Maṇipravāḷam

Abstract

The project of “translation” between the Tamil and Sanskrit traditions of learned literary production has periodically engaged my interests as a linguistic and historical anthropologist over more than two decades. This has been centrally focused on a normative text of Kerala which tried to sanction and partly describe a regionally based literary language and literature poised between these two traditions. The 14th-century treatise, the Līlātilakam (hereafter LT), was written in Sanskri...

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