Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

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English | ISBN: 103239952X | 2023 | 200 pages | PDF | 48 MB
This book―an English translation of a key Tamiḻ book of literary and cultural criticism―looks at the construction of Tamiḻ scholarship through the colonial approach to Tamiḻ literature as evidenced in the first translations into English.

The Tamiḻ original Atikāramum tamiḻp pulamaiyum: Tamiḻiliruntu mutal āṅkila moḻipeyarppukaḷ by N Govindarajan is a critique of the early attempts at the translations of Tamiḻ literary texts by East India Company officials, specifically by N E Kindersley. Kindersley, who was working as the Collector of South Arcot district in the late eighteenth century, was the first colonial officer to translate the Tamiḻ classic
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