Dear List members, Dr Jean-Luc CHEVILLARD wrote in his reply dated 31 Oct 2001 to <INDOLOGY@yahoogroups.com> under the subject "Enquiry about Tamil Grammars"...
W.H. Schoff (tr. & ed.), The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century(London, Bombay & Calcutta...
... tin2RAn2" ... Jobson ... Thanks, Dr Ganesan. I think the "y" of Latin is invariably an "upsilon" of Greek although I don't know how the latter is/might...
... Dear Dr Ganesan, Thanks for your reply. I have with me the print-out of your message no.427 received on 3 Nov 2001, and the information regarding...
Prof. George Hart talks about the larger Dravidian (eg., Tamil) substratum in old India in the chapter called "Tamil Elements in Indo-Aryan" in his book, Poems...
Dear Mr. Ganesan, Thanks for all the references. I'm sorry for the delay in responding back. My name is Sujata and I am now based in Canada. Sujata ... it ... ...
... and then Muziris and Nelcynda, which are now of leading importance".<< Is it an established fact that Muziris is Kollam? Is there any room for another...
... Dear Sir Your unreserved and unwarranted praise of "Modernity, secular education, missionary effort, etc " in helping alleged "unwanted aspects of India"...
Dear Professor, What I meant was that, due to Christian missionary efforts, secular education, ... the effects of Caste (varNa dharma and untouchability) ...
... Dear Ganesan Your promoting me is a bit premature.I am not yet a professor, when I am,I will let everyone know ... untouchability) ... Effects of caste and...
<due to Christian missionary efforts, secular education, ... the effects of Caste (varNa dharma and untouchability) started to get reduced.The modern prose and...
... untouchability) ... had a boost ... in this phase of India's history, irrespective of its factual validity, or lack thereof. ... There is nothing wrong in...
... untouchability) ... had a boost ... in this phase of India's history, irrespective of its factual validity, or lack thereof. ... Father Rajamanickam, S. J....
... public ... In all this, the power of the One Man One Vote system can not be denied. It is also somewhat naive to think that the founding fathers of the...
... fathers ... equality. My brahmins?? They were independent people amd not my chamchas. The implication is that even those sections of the populations who...
... Regarding the collections of Tamil MSS, I am aware of one (still unfinished) global cataloguing project, _A Descritptive Catalogue of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts...
... As I recall, Major AK was principal of a local college, TN. His catalog mainly covers mss. in Biliotheque Natioanle (sp. ?), Paris, & some others in...
One of the best catalogs of Tamil palmleaf mss. is the 5 volumes published by Tamil university. One editor, P. V. Nagarajan is an expert on vaNNam poems. ...
Dear Dr Chevillard, Thanks a lot for the information. ***************************************************** ** My own French translation of cEn2Avaraiyam, ... ...
... Yes, there is at least one by Sanford B. STEEVER in the JAOS (Journal of the American Oriental Society), vol. 119, Number 3, July-September 1999, pp....
Dear Dr Chevillard, Thanks a lot for the reply to my email. ... This means that even now-a-days there is a wide variation in dates assigned by different...
... Before scholars decide on the dates of layers of tolkAppiyam, Gift Siromony's discovery of puLLi letter in rock inscrptions dating to mid 2nd century, and...
... VA: Every external influence will have bad effects as well as some good ones. The missionaries have thus brought in several good things, or shall I say...
... This is typical Eurocentric mentality. Unfortunately, so many Indians are still so slavish even after 50 years of independence that they think that...
... Have seen genetic studies saying that high caste Hindus are genetically European also! Prof. Witzel has given a lengthy article about why Sanskrit or Vedic...
... VA: If you are referring to the Bamshad study, it was refuted methematically on several lists. BTW, a clarification letter was received from one of the...
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