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Books in English

• History of the Tamils: from the earliest times to 600 A.D.
  P.T. Srinivas Iyengar
  New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1982, Reprint
  
  
• A short history of the ancient Tamils and their literature
  Ratnaswami, Subramaniam
  Annamalainagar: Thaiyalnayaki Velideeyu, 1979
  
  
• The history of the growth of Tamil during the Indian War of Independence
  M.P. Sivagnanam; translated by K. Chellappan
  Madras: University of Madras, 1980
  
  
• Tamil renaissance and Dravidian nationalism 1905-1944
  K. Nambi Arooran
  Madurai: Koodal Publishers, 1980
  
  
• A topographical list of inscriptions in the Tamil Nadu and Kerala states
  T.V. Mahalingam
  New Delhi: Indian Council of Historical Research: S. Chand, 1985-
  
  
• Neolithic and megalithic cultures in Tamil Nadu
  B. Narasimhaiah
  Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1980
  
  
• The Manipravala literature of the Srivaisnava Acaryas : 12th to 15th century A.D.
  Koil Kandadai Appan Venkatachari
  Bombay : Ananthacharya Research Institute, 1978.
  
  
• European impact on modern Tamil writing and literature
  Somalay [i.e. S.M.L. Lakshmanan Lena].
  Trivandrum : Dravidian Linguistic Association ; Madras,1976.
  
  
• Tamil ilakkiya varalaru, Ki. Pi. 1 nutal: Camanamum Tamilum, Pauttamum Tamilum, Vainavamum Tamilum
  E.S. Varataraja Aiyar
  Annamalainakar]: Annamalaip Palkalaik Kalakam, 1979
  
  
• The brahmin in the Tamil country
  N. Subrahmanian
  Madurai: Ennes Publications, 1989
  
  
• Tamil polity, c. A.D. 600-c. A.D. 1300
  Rajalakshmi, R.
  Madurai: Ennes Publications, 1983
  
  
• Symbols of substance, court and state in Nayaka period Tamilnadu
  Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
  Delhi; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992
  
  
• History of Tamil Nadu, 1565-1982
  K. Rajayyan
  Madurai: Raj Publishers, 1982
  
  
• The role of feudatories in later Chola history
  M.S. Govindasamy
  Annamalai Nagar: Annamalai University, 1979
  
  
• Selections from history of Tamilnadu, 1565-1965<^br> K. Rajayyan
  Madurai: Madurai Pub. House, 1978
  
  
• A history of the Maravas, 1700-1802
  S. Kadhirvel
  Madurai: Madurai Publishing House, 1977
  
  
• The congress in Tamilnad: nationalist politics in south India, 1919-1937
  David Arnold
  Columbia, Mo.: South Asia Books, 1977
  
  
• March to freedom in Madras Presidency, 1916-1947
  Saroja Sundararajan
  Madras: Lalitha Publications, 1989
  
  
• The national movement in Tamil Nadu, 1905-14: agitational politics and state coercion
  N. Rajendran
  Madras; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994
  
  
• Tamil: Sprache als politisches Symbol: politische Literatur in der Tamilsprache in den Jahren 1945 bis 1967: mit besonderer Berucksichtigung der Schriften der Fuhrer der dravidischen Bewegung E.V. Ramacami und C.N. Annaturai
  Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam
  Wiesbaden: Steiner, 1984
  
  
• A history of the Tamil siddha cult
  R. Venkatraman
  Madurai: Ennes Publications, 1990
  
  
• Folk beliefs of the Tamils
  translated and edited by M. Shanmugam Pillai (1920 - ), Erica A.E. Claus
  Madurai: Muttu Patippakam, 1981
  
  
• Caste, nationalism and ethnicity: an interpretation of Tamil cultural history and social order
  J. Pandian
  Bombay: Popular Prakashan, 1987
  
  
• Play, Symbolism, and Ritual : A Study of Tamil Brahmin Women's Rites of Passage
  Vasumathi K. Duvvury
  American University Studies, Series Xi, Anthropology and Sociology,4);
  Peter Lang Publishing, June 1991, ISBN: 0820411086
  
  
• The Powers of Tamil Women
  Susan S. Wadley (Editor)
  Syracuse Univ, November 1991, ISBN: 0915984423
  Foreign and Comparative Studies/South Asian Series, No 6)
  
  
• Shakti : Power in the Conceptual Structure of Karimper Religion
  Susan S. Wadley
  Univ of Chicago, June 1975, ISBN: 0916256014
  
  
• Tamil research through journals: (an annotated bibliography)
  A.A. Manavalan
  Madras: International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1975
  
  
• Mission and Tamil society: social and religious change in South India (1840-1900)
  Henriette Bugge
  Richmond: Curzon, 1994
  
  
• Chieftains of the Sangam age
  K.D. Thirunavukkarasu (Tirunavukkaracu, Ka. Ta., 1931- )
  Madras : International Institute of Tamil Studies, 1994.1st ed.
  
  
Books in Tamil

• Tamil nattuppura iyal ayvu
  patippaciriyar Ca. Ve. Cuppiramaniyan (Subramanian, Shanmuga Velayutham, 1929- )
  Cennai: Ulakat Tamilaraycci Niruvanam, 1979, 1st ed.
  International Institute of Tamil Studies Publication no.13
  
  
• thamizh naattup pazhankuti makkaL: vaazhvum varalaarum
  Cu. Caktivel (S. Sakthivel)
  Citamparam: Manivacakar Nulakam, 1980
  
  
• Tamizhum pirathuraikaLum
  patippaciriyar Na. Katikacalam. Ed. Cennai : Ulakat Tamilaraycci Niruvanam, 1994.1st.
  International Institute of Tamil Studies Publication, no. 191.