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Buddhism and Tamil

by Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy , S. Thillainayagam , Aadhavan Pazhani
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781032482293
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 152
  • Original Price: USD 64.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 236 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies

First published in 1940, Buddhism and Tamil was one of the pioneering attempts to trace the history of Buddhism in the Tamil country. The book challenges the then-prevalent belief that Tamil is synonymous with Saivism and problematises the simplistic understanding that Hinduism had always been the religion of India.

Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy (1900-1980) was a prominent Tamil scholar known for his interdisciplinary research in history, literature, and religion. Some of his renowned works are Christianity and Tamil (1936), Samanam and Tamil (1954), Tamil Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1962), History of the Kongu Region (1974), and Tamil Country under the reign of the Kalabhras (1976). In honour of his contributions to Tamil Studies, the Tamil Nadu government nationalised his works in 2000.

S.Thillainayagam, a retired professor of English, has authored a book containing precise and easy-to-understand meaning for the Thirukural couplets in Tamil and English. Besides editing Sundara Ramasamy's Selected Essays and translating Vallikannan's Tamil Prose after Bharathi (Routledge), he has several Tamil to English translations to his credit. His translation of Pichamurthy's Selected Short Stories won him the Nalli-Thisai Ettum Award for the best Tamil to English translation of the year 2019. He is the recipient of A.Muttulingam Translation Award 2024 for his contribution to Tamil to English translation.

Aadhavan Pazhani is a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, working on the emergence of modern Tamil prose and the novel in nineteenth-century Colonial Tamil Nadu. His writings and translations in English and Tamil have appeared in The Indian Express, Pudhiya Panuval, Kalachuvadu, and Neelam. He is currently editing a volume of Stalin Rajangam's translated essays in English.

G.Udhayaraj is Assistant Professor of English at Madras Christian College. Specialising in New Historicism, regional literature, and translation, he is pursuing his PhD in the cross-cultural study of Enlightenment.

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