Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Stupendous endeavour

The book deals with the philosophy, religion, culture, and civilisation of the Tamils

It is a mind-boggling and hazardous task to arrive at a thematic unity, while portraying ‘the life-world' (Husserian ‘Lebenswelt') of an ancient ethnic community and one — in this case, the Tamils — whose cultural history predates the Christian era by several centuries.

R. Balasubramanian and his team of editors must be congratulated on having successfully completed this stupendous endeavour, focussing on the philosophy, religion, culture, and civilisation of the Tamils (covering a period of 2500 years) in a two-part volume running nearly to 2,000 pages. The first part was published in 2008. Now under review is the second part that deals with the period from the 13 {+t} {+h} century down to the present day. There are six sections comprising 19 articles by 16 eminent scholars, three of whom have contributed two each.

Full review here Hindu

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