{"id":36673,"date":"2013-07-03T17:27:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallamai.com\/?p=36673"},"modified":"2013-07-03T17:27:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:57:05","slug":"lecture-at-rmrl-spatial-and-temporal-dimensions-of-ca%e1%b9%85kam-tamil-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallamai.com\/?p=36673","title":{"rendered":"Lecture at RMRL: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Ca\u1e45kam Tamil Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prof. M. Anandakrishnan Endowment Lecture Series<\/i><\/p>\n

Roja Muthiah Research Library<\/b><\/p>\n

invites you for a<\/p>\n

\u00a0lecture on\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Ca\u1e45kam Tamil Literature<\/b><\/p>\n

by\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

R. Balakrishnan<\/p>\n

Honorary Consultant, Indus Research Centre, Roja Muthiah Research Library<\/i><\/p>\n

Date<\/i>:\u00a0<\/b>12th\u00a0July 2013<\/p>\n

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Time:<\/i><\/b>\u00a05.00 – 7.00 p.m.<\/p>\n

Venue:<\/i><\/b>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Roja Muthiah Research Library<\/b>
\n3rd Cross Road, Central Polytechnic Campus
\nTaramani, Chennai 600 113
\nTelephone: 2254 2551 \/ 2254 2552<\/p>\n

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Tea will be served at\u00a04.30 p.m.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

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Summary of the talk<\/b><\/p>\n

Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>literature represents the ancient extant Dravidian corpus. It is evident that the classical\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>texts could not have been an \u2018overnight enterprise\u2019 but indeed was an end product of centuries of oral traditions and literary conventions. Although\u00a0V\u0113<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>ka<\/i>\u1e6d<\/i>a\u00a0<\/i>Hills are designated as the formal northern boundaries of political and linguistic landscape of the Tamils of the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>Age, the fact remains that the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>texts deal intimately with the geographies much beyond that boundary line. There are events alluded to in the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>corpus that belong to a period much anterior. Besides, landscapes associated with some of those allusions clearly point to the extended geographical jurisdiction of the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>texts towards the north and the west.Consequently, the spatial and temporal dimensions of the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>texts emerge larger and deeper.<\/p>\n

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The speaker presents his case studies on portrayal of Himalayas, Camel, Yak and Lion in\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>texts to highlight that the\u00a0Ca<\/i>\u1e45<\/i>kam\u00a0<\/i>corpus shows an audacious familiarity with some of the most exclusive and micro-realities of the western and the northern geographies, some not captured even in the northern literature, and argues that this \u201cfirst hand\u201d intimacy of Tamil poetry with the northern and the western geographies points to the prehistoric presence of Dravidians in those regions.<\/p>\n

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Measuring together the visible lack of intimate knowledge about the unique flora and fauna and landscapes of the \u2018deep south\u2019 in the earliest northern texts and the apparent familiarity seen in \u00a0Ca\u1e45kam texts with the northern heights and western fringes, the speaker states that Ca\u1e45kam texts, contrary to the existing impressions, truly represent a national character and hails the corpus as the first and foremost \u201cgrass-root literature\u201d of India.<\/p>\n

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He further discusses the implications of his new findings on the \u201cDravidian Hypothesis\u201d of the Indus Valley Civilization.<\/p>\n

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About the Speaker<\/b><\/p>\n

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R.Balakrishnan is a scholar in the field of Onomastics. Comparative Toponymy is his area of specialization. He believes that a scientific study of place names would provide reliable markers to reconstruct the trajectories of past migrations. In the year 2010 he announced the evidence of “Korkai, Vanji, Tondi Complex” in the north-western geographies and argued for a Dravidian role in the making of Indus Civilization and traced some tell-tale markers in the Old Tamil texts for the probable migrations from the Indus Region.His recent paper (December 2012) \u00a0“The High-West: Low-East Dichotomy of Indus Cities: A Dravidian Paradigm” demonstrates that the key aspects of Indus town planning \u00a0encode a concurring association with the \u00a0topo-centric model for lexical encoding and naming of cardinal directions observed in the Dravidian languages.<\/p>\n

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Balakrishnan is a senior member of the Indian Administrative Service.<\/p>\n

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About Prof. M. Anandakrishnan<\/b><\/p>\n

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Prof. Anandakrishnan obtained Ph.D in Civil Engineering (1960) from the University of Minnesota, USA. He served as Professor of Civil Engineering at IIT, Kanpur between 1963 and 1974. He served the United Nations \u00a0in the UN Centre for S&T for Development(1978-1989); as the Vice-Chancellor of Anna University (1990-96); and as Vice-Chairman of the Tamil Nadu State Council for Higher Education from 1996-2002. \u00a0Currently he is the Chairman, \u00a0Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Technology \u00a0Kanpur and Rajasthan; President, Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies (RCIS), Chennai; President, Tamil Nadu Academy of Sciences, \u00a0Chennai; Member, Board of Management, NUEPA, Delhi; Member, High Power Committee on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education in India and Chairman, Executive Council, Science City, Chennai. He was Chairman, MIDS between 2003 and 2008. He has served as Chairman or Member of several high level committees of MHRD, UGC, AICTE and NAAC. His honours and awards include Padma Shri from the President of India (2002); the Order of Scientific Merit from the President of Brazil (1996); Distinguished Leadership Award of the University of Minnesota (2003); Honorary Fellow of the Indian Society for Technical Education (2005); UGC National Swami Pranavananda Saraswati Award in Education (2006); Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India and Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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