Archive India Institute’s Second Annual International Conference Violence in Indian history Bangalore, November 1st 2013 Premodern India produced over 25,000 literary, religious, philosophical and scientific texts and hundreds of administrative documents, land records, trading charters, historical chronicles and genealogies. Close to thirty million manuscripts are now extant. Besides, India is home to nearly 75,000...
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Tamil Documentation Conference April 2013-Sri Lanka
Tamil Documentation Conference – தமிழ் ஆவண மாநாடு 27-28 of April 2013- Colombo, Sri Lanka Organised by Noolaham Foundation This conference aims at identifying and discussing the goals that have been achieved so far and the goals that need to be achieved in the future in the areas of documentation, preservation and dissemination of knowledge....
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“Caste in Tamil Nadu” 3 essays by MSS Pandian (EPW)
(I) Caste in Tamil Nadu – A History of Nadar Censorship Published in EPW, vol. XLVIII, n°3, on January 19th 2013 Representations have been made by some of the political parties of Tamil Nadu to have a particular chapter in an NCERT Class IX textbook removed; the chapter is being attacked for discussing the...
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International Conference on Tamil Grammar 6/8 March 2013
Pasts in the Present: Tamil Grammar and its Contemporary Predicaments -International Conference- Date: 6th to 8th March 2013 Venue: French Institute of Pondicherry 11, Saint Louis street Time: 09.30 am The French Institute of Pondicherry and the Central Institute of Classical Tamil will jointly organize a three day international conference ‘Pasts...
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New South Asian Digital Archive Projects
The Endangered Archives Programme is funding six new digital archives project in and related to South Asia: “To survey the East India Company and Colonial archives of Jamestown, St Helena, South Atlantic” (EAP 524) Pilot project (6 months) coordinated by David Richardson, University of Hull. “The narrative and ritual texts, narrative paintings and other...
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PILC Tamil Summer School 2013
The Puducherry (Pondicherry) Institute of Linguistics and Culture holds its regular Tamil Summer School from 22 July – 31 August 2013. The summer school offers an intensive education in spoken Tamil language at basic and intermediate levels, and it combines classroom lessons with field visits so that the participants can practice at most their...
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Noboru Karashima’s keynote address-Tamil Studies Conference
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CFP- Lassnet Conference December 2012
International Law and Social Sciences Research Network Conference University of Peradeniya – Sri Lanka. December 14 to 16, 2012 The inaugural Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSnet) conference was held at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi in 2009. A subsequent conference was held at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in...
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South India under the Cholas
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