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Xavier S. Thani Nayagam

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A somewhat dated (54 years back from 2022!) survey of Tamil (and Dravidian) studies across the world, with individual chapters dealing with different countries or regions. The chapter on Tamil studies in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) (Ratnam and Vithianathan) is especially detailed, and the chapters on Russia and the Soviet Union (Makarenko), Czechoslovakia (Zvelebil), France (Filliozat), Holland (Kuiper), Germany (Wezler), Britain (Asher), USA (A.K.Ramanujan and Arasaratnam), and Southeast Asia (Thani Nayagam and Singaravelu) are all instructive. The chapters, written by such authorities, provide not only a survey of research done from the early modern era to the 20th century, but also a useful listing of the major classical works themselves, as well a useful bibliography of papers and books. Not an earth-shattering work, but definitely a great addition to the linguaphile's shelves, got on a chance encounter in Bangalore's Bookworm old-books shoppe.… (mere)
 
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