Relationships between Tamil and Sanskrit: Altered by M. Kannan and Jennifer Clare, Published by the French Make of Pondicherry, 11, St. Gladiator Street, P.B. 33, Pondicherry-605001; Toll not mentioned.
For the high few decades, the jetting slogan in the governmental environment of the donnish roadshow of Tamil Nadu has been - one could say, taking liberties with what Rudyard Kipling had said in a distinct context, - "Dravidian is Tamil, and Sanskrit is Indic, and never the twain shall cope." But two 'strong forces', one from the Eastside (The Carver Make of Pondicherry) and the new from the Occident (The Department of South and Southeastern Oriental studies, University of Berkley, California) hump arise unitedly to assist a gathering between 'the twain', and the outcome of specified a genial discussion is this aggregation, a assembling of writing by specialists, focussing on this bare of relation.
M. Kannan, one of the two editors of this production (the additional is Jennifer Clare, who has elegantly portrayed the resistance between 'the siblings', Indic and Dravidian, for the endure 150 years in her 'Foreword'), has spelt out in the 'Introduction' the difficulties he featured in organising the dialog. He says they could set exclusive a few scholars who could do comparative search competently in two or more languages.
To retell Kannan: "We disclosed that it was not virtuous knotty but next to unworkable to regain anyone amongst the younger multiplication of Amerindian scholars doing, or plane inclined to bed up, the comparative wreak engaged in this field. The only adolescent scholars of this class whom we could feel were from Europe or from the Nonsegmental States of Usa.
For the high few decades, the jetting slogan in the governmental environment of the donnish roadshow of Tamil Nadu has been - one could say, taking liberties with what Rudyard Kipling had said in a distinct context, - "Dravidian is Tamil, and Sanskrit is Indic, and never the twain shall cope." But two 'strong forces', one from the Eastside (The Carver Make of Pondicherry) and the new from the Occident (The Department of South and Southeastern Oriental studies, University of Berkley, California) hump arise unitedly to assist a gathering between 'the twain', and the outcome of specified a genial discussion is this aggregation, a assembling of writing by specialists, focussing on this bare of relation.
M. Kannan, one of the two editors of this production (the additional is Jennifer Clare, who has elegantly portrayed the resistance between 'the siblings', Indic and Dravidian, for the endure 150 years in her 'Foreword'), has spelt out in the 'Introduction' the difficulties he featured in organising the dialog. He says they could set exclusive a few scholars who could do comparative search competently in two or more languages.
To retell Kannan: "We disclosed that it was not virtuous knotty but next to unworkable to regain anyone amongst the younger multiplication of Amerindian scholars doing, or plane inclined to bed up, the comparative wreak engaged in this field. The only adolescent scholars of this class whom we could feel were from Europe or from the Nonsegmental States of Usa.
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