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The CD publication features 30 sound recordings, chiefly recitations of classical Tamil poetry, made by Hilko Wiardo Schomerus in Madras (Chennai) in 1929. What is new and special about this release is the publication of the sources, of which hitherto no (or only little) notice has been taken.

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"In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi's Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage"--

Tamil poetry --- Religion and literature. --- History and criticism. --- Catholic authors. --- Beschi, Costantino Giuseppe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Tamil literature --- Literature --- Literature and religion --- Moral and religious aspects --- Peski, Kān̲sṭan̲ciyas, --- Beschi, Costanzo Giuseppe, --- Beschi, Constantine Joseph, --- Beschius, Constantinus Josephus, --- Vīramāmun̲ivar,