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	Publisher: Maven Books, Chennai
	Author V. Kanakasabhai Pillai
	Language: English
	Pages: 240
	Cover: PAPERBACK
	9x6 inch
	Weight 360 gm
	Edition: 2022
	ISBN: 9789388694827
	HCF975

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About the Author Visvanatha Kanakasabhai Pillai (1855-1906) was an Indian lawyer, historian and Dravidologist of Sri Lankan Tamil descent. He was the first person to attempt a chronology of ancient Tamil Nadu. He was also one of the first people to deduce the references to a long-submerged legendary continent, Kumari Kandam, in texts such as Silappadhikkaram. Kanakasabhai was born in Madras Presidency in 1855. His ancestors hailed from Mallakam, Jaffna in Ceylon. Kanakasabhai's father V.Visvanatha Pillai, author of Tamil-English dictionary, from Mallakam. To keep alive his connections with Ceylon, Viswanatha Pillai married a woman from Jaffna. Kanakasabhai graduated in arts from Presidency College, Madras and joined the Indian Postal Service. Like his father, he married a Tamil of Sri Lankan origin. Kanakasabhai was a lawyer but developed a keen interest in Tamil history and after practising for a few years, he left the profession and became a full-time historian. From 1895 omwards, Kanakasabhai pub-lished a series of articles in the Madras Review about a long-submerged land that lay to the south of Cape Comorin. These theories of his were based on ancient Tamil and Buddhist sources. These papers were subsequently published in his book The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago. Three years later, in an edi torial in the Siddhanta Deepika, Nallaswami Pillai hinted that Lemuria was the long lost land of Kumari Kandam. In 1904, Kanakasabhai published his magnum opus, The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago. Dedicated to Sir S. Subramania lyer, the book was made up of sixteen chapters, each of which examined the life, culture, geography, trade, religion and philosophy of the ancient Tamil country based on the descriptions in two ancient Sangam epics, the Silappatikaram and the Manimekalai. The book is consid-ered to be a classic and as one of the first notable efforts to research the history of Sangam period Tamil Nadu. Kanakasabhai postulated entirely new pathbreaking theories in his book. He was the first person to suggest the existence of a Kumari Kandam based on his reading of the Silappatikaram. He also claimed that the Tamils were originally settlers from Bengal and that the word "Tamil" itself was derived from the ancient port of Tamralipta. He postulated a new theory that the Dravidian upper classes originally hailed from Mongolia. Kanakasabhai was the first historian to attempt a systematic chronology of Tamil history. Kanakasabhai believed that the Sangam age might have flourished even in the 2nd century AD. He based these claims on the Gajabahu synchronism proposed by Seshagiri Sastriyar. The Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago also had anti-Brahminical overtones. Kanakasabhai accused Tamil Brahmins of a conscious attempt to "foist their system on the Tamils". Kanakasabhai's claims of Mongolian origin for Tamils and the relation of the word "Tamil" with Tamralip ti have invited sharp criticism from contemporary historians. At the Madras Presidency College lectures in 1896, a European said that Kanakasabhai's claims demonstrated the "comparative worthlessness of Hindu history".

Preface A series of articles on the "Tamils Eighteen Hundred Years Ago" was contributed by me to the Madras Review between the years 1895 and 1901. On the appearance of the very first article, Sir 8. SUBRAMANYA IYER wrote to me suggesting that I should bring out all the information available in Tamil literature regard-ing the ancient civilization of the Tamils. I believe I have carried out the suggestion faithfully, as far as my leisure would permit. Since the completion of the series, many of my friends advised me to collect and publish the whole in the form of a book. I have therefore re-arranged the matter, dividing it into chapters, and added an Index, which I hope will facilitate reference. With a view to confine myself strictly to the subject of the book as shown in the title, I have carefully avoided touching upon the history of the Tamils before A.D. 50 or after A.D. 150

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