A Reference Guide to Tamil Studies (1966)
Bibliographic record
Open Library records this University of Malaya Press edition as an English-language volume published in 1966, with eight preliminary pages and 122 numbered pages. The distributor statement names Oxford University Press, London.
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A Reference Guide to Tamil Studies (1966)
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Contents
- Publication note
- From the Collected Papers preface
- Memorial-volume context
Publication note
University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1966 (viii, 122 p.; English). Distributed via Oxford University Press, London. Internet Archive: referenceguideto0000xavi (controlled lending).
From the Collected Papers preface
Collected Papers names this among his main contributions to Tamilology.
Memorial-volume context
Memorial writers note that, some three decades before those tributes, Thani Nayagam grew increasingly concerned at the relative lack of international scholarly interest in Tamil language and culture after the Second World War — despite a European and later American tradition of Tamil study going back to the seventeenth century. Volumes such as Reference Guide to Tamil Studies (University of Malaya Press, 1966) and Tamil Studies Abroad: A Symposium (IATR, 1968) are cited as part of his effort to place Tamil properly before the wider world of letters, later with significant support from A. Subbiah and others.