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List of Scholars who are ethnic Tamil (not scholars that specialize in Tamil studies, for which see Category:Dravidologists) Subcategories.
Kavignar Meenavan (கவிஞர் மீனவன், 9 January 1933 – 22 August 2012), born R.K. Narayanasamy, was a Tamil poet, writer and activist. He was called Kavignar Meenavan by the people of Nagapattinam. He was a popular scholar and has written lot of poetry and research articles in Tamil language. [1]
Tamil language is available as a course in some local school boards and ... Tamil's standard metalinguistic terminology and scholarly vocabulary is itself Tamil, ...
George Luzerne Hart, III (born c. 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Tamil language at the University of California, Berkeley. [1] His work focuses on the classical Tamil literature and on identifying the relationships between the Tamil and Sanskrit literature.
Pulavar was one of the first Tamil scholars invited to be examiner of the panel of Tamil scholars, a position he held for the next 20 years. [3] Scholarly contributions. Pulavar contributed research articles regularly to journals and composed many poetic compositions and works in prose among which some are
[1] [2] [3] His commentary on some of the most studied Tamil texts such as the Tolkappiyam, [4] Kuruntokai and Civaka Cintamani have guided scholarship that followed him, including modern era studies of Tamil literature. [5] According to Kamil Zvelebil, a Tamil literature scholar, Naccinarkiniyar had a "keen poetic sense, awareness of word ...
From 1946 till his death in 1961 he was the Head of the Tamil department. [2] [4] In 1955, he won the first ever Sahitya Akademi Award for Tamil for his series of essays titled Tamil inbam. [5] In 1957, he was awarded a D. Litt degree (honoris causa). Sethu pillai was a scholar of Tamil and wrote more than twenty five books.
Tamil literary tradition is no exception to this pan-Indian phenomenon, with commentary writing having developed as a distinct domain in the scholarly world over the millennia. [3] V. Suba Manikkanar cites the ancientness of the language as a reason for such development. [3]