...Sascha Ebeling Kriyāviṉ taṟkālat tamiḻ akarāti (tamiḻ-tamiḻ-āṅkilam): Cre-A Dictionary of Contemporary Tamil (Tamil-Tamil-English) . 2nd ed. Edited by S. Ramakrishnan . Chennai : Cre-A Publishers , 2008 . lxiii , 1328 pp. Rs. 495 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

... into many institutional libraries. GREGORY L. POSSEHL University of Pennsylvania Tamil Literature. BY K. V. ZVELEBIL. Leiden: E. J. Brill (Handbuch der Orientalistik, zweite Abteilung, 2 Band, 1 Abschnitt), 1975. xii, 307 pp. Appendixes, Index, Charts, Notes. Gld. 220.00 Tamil Literature. BY KAMIL VEITH...

...Steven Kemper S. J. V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism, 1947–1977 . By A. Jeyaratnam Wilson . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1994 . ix, 149 pp. $26.00 (cloth). States, Nations, Sovereignty: Sri Lanka, India and the Tamil Eelam Movement...

...S. Vaidyanathan Tamil Studies Abroad: A Symposium . Edited by Xavier S. Thani Nayagam . Kuala Lumpur : The International Association of Tamil Research , 1968 . 269 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, n.p. Proceedings of the First International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, Vol. I...

...Indira Viswanathan Peterson A Gift of Tamil: Translations from Tamil Literature. In Honor of K. Paramasivam . Edited By Norman Cutler and Paula Richman . Manohar : American Institute of Indian Studies , 1992 . viii, 151 pp. $16.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Michael Moffatt Behind Poverty: The Social Formation in a Tamil Village . By Göran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg . Lund : Studentlitteratur ; and London: Curzon Press, 1975 . 340 pp. Maps, Illustrations, Tables, Notes, Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, n.p.l. Pills against...

...Anne E. Monius Ritual and Mythological Sources of the Early Tamil Poetry . By Alexander M. Dubianskii . Groningen : Egbert Forsten , 2000 . xxi, 224 pp. Kāvya in South India: Old Tamil Cankam Poetry . By Herman Tieken . Groningen : Egbert Forsten , 2001 . 270 pp...

...M. B. Emeneau Two Thousand Years of Tamil Literature . An Anthology with Studies and Translations. By J. M. Somasundaram Pillai . Annamalainagar, India : published by the author , 1959 . vi, 378 . Illustrated. Rs. 8. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961...

...Donald Nelson 382 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES Zvelebil produces his next "guide" a decade hence, the Western reader will be less destitute of direct experience of the rewards of Tamil literature. The comments on Tamil culture found throughout the volume will not fail to spark strong response, awed...

...David Rudner The Northern Nadars of Tamil Nadu. An Indian Caste in the Process of Change . By Dennis Templeman . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1996 . xxi, 284 p. $24.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 591...

...Sumathi Ramaswamy Abstract Once upon a time, long before the rise of the modern nation, a language named Tamil wandered about in a world inhabited by divinities and extraordinary beings. This was an enchanted world of miraculous events and wondrous deeds, where the dead were brought back to life...

...Srilata Raman Müller Passions of the Tongue: Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891—1970 . By Sumathi Ramaswamy . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1997 . xxiii, 326 pp. $20.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999 1999 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Pamela Price Abstract From the 1920s to the late 1960s, Tamil nationalism in India was characterized by elements of radical innovation which made the Dravidian movement a mobilization for cultural revolution, in Tamil terms, as well as for the defense of Tamil interests vis-à-vis the central...

...Charles Hallisey Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text . By Paula Richman . Syracuse : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University , 1988 . Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series 12. xii, 272 pp. Copyright ©...

...Pamela Price Symbols of Substance: Court and State in Nāyaka Period Tamil Nadu . By Velcheru Narayana Rao , David Shulman , and Sanjay Subramanyam . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . 4 maps, 16 photos, xix, 349 pp. $39.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Charles Hallisey Women, Branch Stories, and Religious Rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist Text . By Paula Richman . Syracuse : Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University , 1998 . Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series 12. xii, 272 pp. Copyright ©...

...R. E. Asher A History of Tamil Literature . By J. M. Somasundaram Pillai . Annamalainagar, India : Published by the author , 1968 . xxv, 424 pp. Introduction, Index. $4.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 634 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES One chapter...

...Martha Ann Selby Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics . By Takanobu Takahashi . Leiden : E.J. Brill , 1995 . xiv, 255 pp. $95.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 839 Sinha seeks to "broaden the significance of feminist...

...Hank Heifetz Songs of Experience: The Poetics of Tamil Devotion . By Norman Cutler . Religion in Asia and Africa Series. Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1987 . xii , 211 pp. $27.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

...Richard S. Kennedy Poems of Love and War: From the Eight Anthologies and the Ten Long Poems of Classical Tamil . Selected and translated by A. K. Ramanujan . New York : Columbia University Press , 1985 . xviii, 337 pp. Afterword, Notes, Appendix, References, Index of Poets, Index...