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The Flower-garden of Tolkappiyam
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ISBN
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9780230639348
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Publisher
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Macmillan Publishers India
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Subject
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Literature: History & Criticism
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Binding
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Hardcover
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Pages
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280
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Year
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2009
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The Flower-garden of Tolkãppiyam is the compilation of one hundred selected verses of Tolkappiyam, the pre-Christian Tamil work on linguistics and poetics, reinterpreted, explicated and illustrated in the idiom of contemporary Tamil. The work brings in a variety of interpretive techniques that are informed by Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi's wisdom of the world, scholarly equipment, scientific temperament and his unfailing sense of wit and humour. Running through the text, albeit unobtrusively, are his attempts at propagating his cherished rationalist ideals and principles, as also his passionate feel for and pride in the greatness of the Tamil language and Tamil culture. This work is a testimony to Kalaignar's grasp of the intricate linguistic and literary theories embodied in Tolkappiyam, some of which seem to mystify many academic scholars. His baring out the misperceptions and fallacies that have crept into the commentaries on Tolkappiyam, his new historicist reading of this ancient
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Author Biography
Bharathiar University, Coimbatore - named after the nationalist Tamil poet Subramanya Bharathi, who exhorted the Tamils to identify things worthy in their language, and give them unto the world for enjoyment and edification - conceived this Project viz., Kalaignar in English Translation by which to make available in English the extraordinarily rich and varied literary works of Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi, who, by the sheer volume and weight of his output, makes a compulsive demand on us that he be studied and given his due.
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