Fourth International Conference
Seminar of Tamil Studies
January 1974 - Jaffna,Tamil Eelam Delegates and the Titles of Their Presentations (compiled by Sachi Sri Kantha. Source: Fourth International Conference Seminar of Tamil Studies, Jaffna, Sri Lanka/ January 1974, edited by Dr.Kopalapillai Mahadeva, IATR Sri Lanka National Unit, Colombo, vol.1, 1977, 370pp.
Presentations in English S.Ambikaipakan: Some landmarks in the history of Tamil literature of Ceylon G.Aroul: Acrobatics of the word – Studies in multidimensional poetry of Pulavar Gaffoor Sahib vis-à-vis the Calligrams of Guillaume Appellinaire Mankaladevi Arulnandhy: A contrastive study of the phonemic system of English with that of Tamil, analysing the difficulties encountered by the Tamil child in the learning of English pronunciation Ponnuthurai Balasundarampillai: The markets and fairs of Northern Ceylon V.R.Balasubrahmanyam: Teaching of Tamil to Hindi-speaking adults – some special aspects Bertram Emil Bastiampillai: The Indian Tamils of the plantation areas – some explanations for their survival as a distinct entity in Ceylon society Brenda Beck: The nature/culture opposition – Does it exist in Tamil folklore? Kasiviswanathan Chellappan: The Greek element in Cilappathikaram J.H.Renato De Sa: The college of St.Paul of Goa and the counter reformation in the island of Ceylon Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja: Matrimonial alliances between Tamilnad and the Sinhalese royal family in the Eighteenth century and the establishment of a Madurai dynasty in Kandy Carl Gustav Diehl: Can historical references explain the significance of the Aiyappan cult? Ranee Eliezer: The mango – emissary of Tamil culture W.S.Marcus Fernando: A unique statuette of the boy Krishna Klaus Ludwig Janert: Syntactical problems in modern Tamil Noboru Karashima: Nayaks as the lease-holders of the temple land K.Karunakaran: Social stratification and standardisation of Tamil dialects Carl A.Keller: Mysticism and society in Periyapuraanam Bruce W.Kieler: Functional changes in agraharams within the zone of urban influence of Nagarkoil, South India Laurence Saadia Leshnik: Pastoral nomadism in the history of South India David Wayne McAlpine: Elamite and Dravidian – the morphological evidence Sinnathamby Kandiah Maheswaran: Is there a nucleus for a system of classical music in Sri Lanka? Istvan Major: Tamil elements in the orthography of a South Indian Sanskrit manuscript John Ralston Marr: The SOAS/VSO language laboratory course, Tamil K.E.Mathiaparanam: What Thiruvaacakam means to a Christian? Rao Sahib Murugesa Mudaliyar: A critique of nhatcinntanhai of Yokar Cuvamikal (Thought and style of a modern Tamil saint) Vythialingam MuttuCumaraswamy: Glimpses of the social history of Jaffna under the British rule Navaliyur Somasundaram Nadarasa: The Saiva Siddhanta – a textual analysis of the 12 sutras of Meykandar Chelliah Nagalingam: Budumuttava Tamil inscriptions, No.11 Deva Natarajan: Endowments in Tamil Nadu Hugh Francis Owen: The Tamil and Telugu regions, and Gandhi, 1918-1922 R.Panneerselvam: Stratification of the family system as gleaned from the song story of Cinnannan Cinnaccaami Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: The kingdom of Jaffna – administrative organisation Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: Cola rule in Ceylon Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: Coins of the kings of Jaffna Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: A note on the Sanskrit inscriptions from Padaviya Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: The Vanniyar in medieval South India D.N.Punyasiri Perera: The vegetation and soils of the Northern province of Sri Lanka and their agricultural possibilities V.Perumal: Some aspects of ancient Tamil society P.Poologasingham: Contribution of Ceylonese to the development of Tamil in the Nineteenth century Rev.S.Rajamanickam: Robert de Nobili on certain Indian customs A.K.Ramanujan: Indian Oedipus – with special reference to Dravidian myth and folktales James Thevathasan Rutnam: The Polonnaruwa Colossus Vijaya Kumara Samaraweera: Indian Tamil immigrant labour in Ceylon and the land problem – The case of the land development ordinance of 1935 Arunasalam Sanmugadas: Aspects of the Tamil spoken in Sri Lanka Harold F.Schiffman: Complex negation in Tamil – semantic and syntactic aspects Somasundaram Selvanayagam: Land use in the ancient Tamil country – a case study of the marutham landscape Ravinder Kumar Seth: Doctrine of karma – Thiruvalluvar’s ‘uuzh’ Kartigesu Nagalingapillai Velautha Seyon: Coins of the kings of Jaffna M.Shanmugampillai: Pronominal usage in kurunthokai John Rasasingham Sinnathamby: The Pandyas John Rasasingham Sinnathamby: Place names in international atlases – an etymological study Vaitiyalingampillai Kartigesapillai Sivaprakasam: Viira Saivites and Tamil literary development in the post-Basava period Vinayakamoorthy Sivasamy: Some aspects of the historical traditions of India with special reference to Tamil Nadu Vinayakamoorthy Sivasamy: A note on the conquista spiritual de Orienta and the History of Jaffna N.Subbu Reddiar: ‘God Soul relationship within’ Nalayiram N.Subbu Reddiar: Thiruvalluvar’s philosophy of education Swaminathan Suseendirarajah: Sri Lankan Tamil and Indian Tamil – noun systems contrasted Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: Tamil plakkat relating to inheritance and gift tax under the Dutch rule in Ceylon Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: The Telugu gypsies of Sri Lanka – a socio-cultural study Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: Tap and trill articulations in Ceylon Tamil Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: An experimental study of free variation Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: The duration of intervocalic stops in Ceylon Tamil – an experimental study Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: Intervocalic doubt consonant articulations in Ceylon Tamil Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: A palatographic study of lengthening Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham: The plosives after nasals in Jaffna Tamil, a kymographic study Sinnathamby Thillainathan: Recent trends in Ceylon Tamil literature Velauthar Kopalapillai Thillainayagam: Tamil typewriter Soosaipillai Thomanupillai:Mathoottam and Kattukkaraikkulam (Giant’s Tank) Mohamed Mahmood Uwise: The spoken Tamil of Muslims of Sri Lanka Alvapillai Veluppillai: Inscriptional Tamil – as a source for the history of Tamil language Theol Joseph Anton Wicki: The treatise on Hinduism of Fr.Goncale Fernandes S.J. Madurai, 1616 A.Fryholm Yngve: Kannappa Nayanar – a rough diamond among saints of Tamil Nadu
Presentations in Tamil V.M.V.Rajappan Ashok Kumar: Arignar Mu.Varadarasanin naavalkaLLai parriyathoru thiranaivu M.P.Balasubramanian: Bharatiyar kavithaikalil Thiruvalluvarin selvaaku Eliyathamby Balasundaram: Pandaiya kuravai koothum Maddakalappu kulavai poduthalum Elias Catherine Soosaipillai (Eraipugalvaali): Thamil ennmuthaiyil thalaiyaaya thiruppam Viswalingam Kanapathipillai Ganesalingam: Poochikalai kaddupaduthuvathu Thamilar panpaadukku murannpaadaanathaa? Era Ganesan: Thamil sorrthodariyal muraiyil kanakkiyar kuriyeedukal Vairamuthu Govindapillai: Thamil thattezhutthiyanthiramum Thamil nedunkanakkil ezhuthu seeramaippum S.Kalaparameswaran: Thamilarin ilakkiyath thiranaaivu murai – sila arimuka kurippu Thambu Kanagaratnam: Sinhala-Pali mozhikalil Thamil neethi ilakkiyam Maniccavasagar Kanagasabapathy Kanagendran (Eelaventhan): Thiruvempaavaiyum Thiruppaavaiyum Mrs.K.Mahalingam (Saalini Ilanthiraian): Thamilth than varalaarukalin ilakkiya thakuthippaadu V.R.Mahalingam (Saalai Ilanthiraian): Thamil kavithaiyil Maha Kaviyin saathanai C.Nainar Mohamed: Arabuth Thamil Vijayalaxumy Muththukkumaru: Seevaka Sinthamaniyin kaalam – Thamil, Samaskrutha, Kannada, Prakrutha noolkaludan oor oppeeddu nokku D.D.Nanayakkara: Sinhala-Thamil orrumai Kanapathipillai Navasothy: Thotta tholilalar varalaaru koorum malaiyakath thani paadalkal Kanapathipillai Navasothy: Ilankai pechchuth Thamilin oli maarankalum sirappu vazhakkukalum Kanapathipillai Navasothy: Ilankai Inthiya kalai sollaaka muraikalum adippadai verupaadukalum Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: Velaikkaara padaikal Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan: Eelathuk kaasukal – Pandiyarin nanayankal K.Ramasamy: Ulagamum udampum uiyum vazhiyum Pulavar S.Rasu: Nadukal vazhipaadu Karthigesu Ponnambalam Ratnam: Thirukkural mozhipeyarppukal V.Sambunathan: Sittha maruthuva sirappu Somasundram Sandrasegaram: Ilankaiyil pothanaa mozhimaaram – athan pinnani parriya aaivu Mailvaganam Satkunam: Idappeyar varalaaru – Mattakalappu maavaddam Kumarasamy Selvachandran: Thamilil sadda mozhipeyarppiluLLa sikkalkal Kumarasamy Selvachandran: Mozhipeyarppum thani Thamil sorkkaLum Karthigesu Nagalingapillai Velauta Seyon: Eelathu kaasukal – Pandiyarin nanayankal Kodumudi Shanmugam: Iru mozhi thattachchu K.Sittampalam: Makkalum vishamum A.Sivanesaselvan: Ilankai Thamil pathirikaikalin thorramum valarchiyum – sila kurippukal Pulavar Nagalingam Sivapathasundaranar: Aha thinaiyil nila muthar porul Vinayakamoorthy Sivasamy: Yaalpanaththu kaasukal Aru Somasundaran: Irupathaam nooraandil Thamil kavithai Nagaraja Iyer Subramaniam: Eelathu Thamil naavalkal T.S.Sundareswaran (Ezhil Erai): Bharathi Dasan ulagam Sinnathamby Thillainathan: Thamil aaka ilakkiya vaLarchiyil Ilankaiyin panku M.Vasuki: VaLLalaar koLLkaiyin adippadai samayamaa? samuthaayamaa? Pandit Kanthar Veerakathy: Aaitham oru muthalezhuthu maahum Kalaiyarasi Venthanar: Eelathu PaLLu pirapanthankal
Authors of Research Papers and their Country Affiliations G.Aroul (India) Mankaladevi Arulnandhy (Sri Lanka) Rajappan Ashok Kumar (Sri Lanka) M.P.Balasubramanian (India) E.Balasundaram (Sri Lanka) P.Balasundarampillai (Sri Lanka) V.R.Balasubrahmanyam (India) B.E.Bastiampillai (Sri Lanka) Brenda Beck (Canada) Kasiviswanathan Chellappan (India) J.H.Renato De Sa (India) Lorna Srimathi Dewaraja (Sri Lanka) Carl Gustav Diehl (Sweden) Elias Catherine Soosaipillai [Eraipugalvaali] (Sri Lanka) Ranee Eliezer (Australia) W.S.Marcus Fernando (Sri Lanka) V.K.Ganesalingam (Sri Lanka) Era Ganesan (India) Vairamuttu Govindapillai (Sri Lanka) Klaus Ludwig Janert (West Germany) S.Kalaparameswaran (Sri Lanka) Thambu Kanagaratnam (Sri Lanka) Maniccavasagar Kanagasabapathy Kanagendran (Sri Lanka) Noboru Karashima (Japan) K.Karunakaran (UK) Carl A.Keller (Switzerland) Bruce W.Kieler (USA) Laurence Saadia Leshnik (West Germany) David Wayne McAlpine (USA) S.K.Maheswaran (Sri Lanka) Mrs.K.Mahalingam [Saalini Ilanthiraian] (India) V.R.Mahalingam [Saalai Ilanthiraian] (India) Istvan Major (Hungary) John Ralston Marr (UK) K.E.Mathiaparanam (Sri Lanka) C.Nainar Mohamed (India) Murugesa Mudaliyar (India) Vythilingam MuttuCumaraswamy (UK) Vijayalaxumy Muththukkumaru (Sri Lanka) Navaliyur S.Nadarasan (Sri Lanka) Chelliah Nagalingam (Sri Lanka) D.D.Nanayakkara (Sri Lanka) Deva Natarajan (India) Kanapathipillai Navasothy (Sri Lanka) Hugh Francis Owen (Australia) R.Panneerselvam (India) Sivasubramaniyam Pathmanathan (Sri Lanka) D.N.Punyasiri Perera (Sri Lanka) V.Perumal (India) P.Poologasingham (Sri Lanka) Rev.S.Rajamanickam (India) A.K.Ramanujan (USA) K.Ramaswamy (Sri Lanka) Pulavar S.Rasu (India) Pundit Kartigesu Ponnambalam Ratnam (Sri Lanka) James Thevathasan Rutnam (Sri Lanka) VijayaKumara Samaraweera (Sri Lanka) V.Sambunathan (Sri Lanka) Somasundram Sandrasegaram (Sri Lanka) Arunasalam Sanmugadas (Sri Lanka) Mailvaganam Satkunam (Sri Lanka) Harold F.Schiffman (USA) Kumarasamy Selvachandran (Sri Lanka) Somasundaram Selvanayagam (Sri Lanka) Ravinder Kumar Seth (India) Kartigesu Nagalingapillai Seyon (Sri Lanka) M.Shanmugampillai (India) Kodumudi Shanmugam (India) John Rasasingham Sinnathamby (Sri Lanka) K.Sittampalam (Sri Lanka) A.Sivanesaselvan (Sri Lanka) N.Sivapathasundaranar (Sri Lanka) V.K.Sivaprakasam (Sri Lanka) Vinayakamoorthy Sivasamy (Sri Lanka) Aru Somasundaran (India) Nagaraja Iyer Subramaniam (Sri Lanka) N.Subbu Reddiar (India) T.S.Sundareswaran [Ezhil Erai] (Sri Lanka) Swaminathan Suseendirarajah (Sri Lanka) Sabaratnasingham Thananjayarajasingham (Sri Lanka) Sinnathamby Thillainathan (Sri Lanka) Velauthar Kopalapillai Thillainayagam (UK) Soosaipillai Thommanupillai (Sri Lanka) Mohamed Mahmood Uwise (Sri Lanka) M.Vasuki (India) Pundit Kanthar Veerakathy (Sri Lanka) Alvapillai Velupillai (Sri Lanka) Kalaiyarasi Venthanar (Sri Lanka) Theol Joseph Anton Wicki (Italy) A.Fryholm Yngve (Sweden) Jean Filliozat (France) Franciscus Bernadus Jacobus Kuiper (Holland) Rev.Xavier S.Thani Nayagam (Sri Lanka) Suppiramaniam Vithiananthan (Sri Lanka) | 
