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title: "Tamil: A Biography"
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# Tamil: A Biography

**Brand:** david shulman
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    suprb
  

*by H***Y on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 December 2022*

suprb

### ⭐ 1.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This book is not the right read to know about the Tamil language.
  

*by S***N on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 9 January 2021*

The title of the book is deceptive.  It made me buy the book.  I am sure there are other Tamils like me who made this wrong choice.The reader is made to believe that the author is a great Tamil scholar due to the title.  I researched and found out that he is not a Tamil scholar.  The book does not do justice to the Tamil language.  The author has put together this book using just secondary sources.  Many parts of the book see Tamil through the eyes of people who consider Sanskrit to be superior to Tamil.  Appalling is the fact that he says there is no evidence to support the idea that ancient Tamil ever existed in some pure state, isolated from Sanskrit or north Indian culture.  He has named the chapters Pallavi, Anupallavi, Ragamalika, and Caranam.  What have these words got to do with Tamil?He has mentioned that the name of the sage ‘Agasthiya’ is derived from Akathi tree, which is totally absurd.  Both Tamil and Indo-Aryan traditions mention about Akatthiyar who led Velir kings and their families to the Tamil country.  The word has no Indo-European roots.  ‘Akam’ is the Tamil root, which means ‘inner, inside’.  ‘Akathi’ means  ‘the one inside the house’ or ‘lord of the house’ as attested by the epigraphist and Indologist Iravatham Mahadevan through his research papers.The author attacks the Tamil greeting ‘nalama’ and justifies the Sanskrit greeting ‘saukkiyama’.  His attack on a mundane matter reveals his intent in writing this book.Also, this book does not have references to great Sangam Tamil scholars like  Po. Ve. Somasundaranar, Avvai Duraisamy, who reveal well the greatness of the language.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good
  

*by K***I on Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 27 July 2020*

Good

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