![]() ![]() Does the location of the text in " colonial India " exhaust the space-time of its imagination? The essay argues for a porous rather than a hermetic understanding the " text " was a supplement to the actual verbal confrontation on street corners and arguments in ephemeral print. Kristumatachhedanam (1890) and Pracina Malayalam (1899) draw upon a variety of sources across space and time: the echoes of contemporary debates across India and Empire as much as the detritus of the Enlightenment contest between rationalism and religion in Europe. This essay looks at two early texts by a Hindu religious figure, Chattampi Svamikal (1853–1924), from Kerala, the southwestern region of India.
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