Bibliographic record

Amudhan records compilation during 1961–1963, publication in 1966, and 1,355 book records. The narrative gives 122 numbered pages; the bibliography gives vi + 122 (printed pp. 178–179, 211). The independently linked catalogue gives viii + 122. That preliminary-page discrepancy requires edition verification rather than replacing numbered pages with a total. The subtitle Books distinguishes this volume from the 1961 journal guide.

Reading here

This page is a finding aid, not the full bibliography. Use the linked catalogue and controlled-lending scan for the represented edition.

A Reference Guide to Tamil Studies (1966)

Bibliographic / context note only (full OCR not hosted). / நூலியல் குறிப்பு மட்டும் — முழு OCR இங்கே இல்லை.

Contents

1. Publication note
2. From the Collected Papers preface
3. Memorial-volume context

Publication note

University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1966 (viii, 122 p.; English). Distributed via Oxford University Press, London. Internet Archive: referenceguideto0000xavi (controlled lending).

From the Collected Papers preface

Collected Papers names this among his main contributions to Tamilology.

Memorial-volume context

Memorial writers note that, some three decades before those tributes, Thani Nayagam grew increasingly concerned at the relative lack of international scholarly interest in Tamil language and culture after the Second World War — despite a European and later American tradition of Tamil study going back to the seventeenth century. Volumes such as Reference Guide to Tamil Studies (University of Malaya Press, 1966) and Tamil Studies Abroad: A Symposium (IATR, 1968) are cited as part of his effort to place Tamil properly before the wider world of letters, later with significant support from A. Subbiah and others.