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1. Popular Tamil Works
Thirukkural (Original in Tamil with English Translation) /W.H. Drew
The Tiruvacagam or, Sacred Utterances of the Tamil Poetry... /G.U. Pope;
Tirumantiram, a Tamil scriptural classic /Tirumular;
Periya Puranam /Sekkizhaar;
A Classified Collection of Tamil Proverbs / Herman Jensen;
A Classical Collection of Tamil Proverbs; Trubner's Oriental Series /HERMAN JENSEN;
Arut Perunjothi Agaval /Swami Saravanananda;
Theatre of the Mahabharata /Richard Armando Frasca;
2. Tamil Language Learning)
Colloquial Tamil /Ron Asher
Colloquial Tamil Compact Disc / Ron Asher
Colloquial Tamil Cassette Pack /Ron Asher
A Tamil Prose Reader /R. E. Asher
Tamil for Beginners /Kausalya Hart
A Tamil Primer Part I / Kausalya Hart
Learn Tamil in 30 days /N Jegtheesh
Learn Tamil in a Month /S. Krishnamurthi
An Intensive Course in Tamil /S. Rajaram
Tamil Phonetic Reader /S. Rajaram
Tamil Phonetc Reader / K. Bhusan
A programmed course in Tamil /G Sankaranarayan
Guide for Advanced Learners of Tamil / Pillai;
Tamil course for European schools /Percy Charles Kerslake
A guide for advanced learners of Tamil /Na Nataraca Pillai
A Key to Rev. Pope's A Handbook of the Tamil Language / A. C. Clayton
Manuel de la Language Tamoule /Julien Vinson
Tamil Alphabet and its Mystic Aspects /P. V. Naiker Manickam
Aharam /S. Radhakrishnan
Talk Now! Tamil
Tamil Self-Taught /Dezilva M. Wickerasinghe
Conversational Tamil /K. Karunakaran
Introduction to Tamil studies /V Perumal
Tamil Auxiliary Verb System /Sanford B. Steever
3. Reference works on Tamil (Dictionaries, Encyclopaedias, Lexicon, ...)
Lexicon of Tamil Literature / Kamil Zvelebil
English and Tamil Dictionary /Winslow
A Comprehensive Tamil English Dictionary /Winslow
A Compendious English Tamil Dictionary /G. U Pope
Percival's English-Tamil Dictionary /P. Percival
Kriyavin tarkalat Tamil akarati / Kriya
English-Tamil Dictionary / K.S. Krishnamurti
Tamil Dictionary & Phrasebook /Clement J. Victor
The Lifco Tamil-Tamil-English Dictionary /The Little Flower Co.
Tamil-English Dictionary / Visvanatha Pillai
English-Tamil and Tamil-English Dictionary /J. Swamy
Compendious Tamil-English Dictionary /G. U. Pope
A Grammar of the Common Dialect of the (Tamul) Tamil Language /Joseph Besch
A dictionary of English loan-words in modern Tamil /Chandran Tucker
Tamil dictionaries / Ayyadurai Dhamotharan
A Reference Grammar of Spoken Tamil /Harold F. Schiffman
A Reference Grammar of Classical Tamil Poetry /American Oriental Society
A Berge de la Grammaire Francaise Tamoule /P. Lap
Vocabulaire Tamoul - Francais / M. A. Lap
Dictionnaire Tamoul Francais /Mousset
A Word Index of Old Tamil Cankam Literature. /American Oriental Society
Generative phonology of Tamil /T Vasanthakumari
Intervocalic -v- deletion in Tamil: evidence for aspect as a morphological category/ Harold F. Schiffman
The Dravidian Languages /S. Steever
A Vocabulary of the English, Sinhalese, and Tamil Languages /Asian Educational Services
Diglossia: A Study of the Theory With Application to Tamil / Francis Britto
Diglossia / N Ramaswami
Tamil syntax / R Kothandaraman
Studies in South Asian Linguistics / James W. Gair
Yadava dialect of Tamil /S Jayapal
4. Books on Tamil Literature
Encyclopaedia of Tamil Literature / Institute of Asian Studies
Manimekhalai /Cattanar
The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal / R. Parthasarathy
Songs of Experience / Norman Cutler
Poems of Love and War /A. K. Ramanujan
The Interior Landscape /A. K. Ramanujan
Poets of the Tamil Anthologies /George L. Hart
Poems of Ancient Tamil /George L. Hart
The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom /George L. Hart
The Naladiyar of Four Hundred Quatrains in Tamil / G. U. Pope
Tamil Poetical Anthology with Grammatical Notes and Vo... /G.U. Pope
Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature / Kamil V. Zvelebil
Lexicon of Tamil Literature /Kamil V. Zvelebil
The Smile of Murugan / Kamil V. Zvelebil
Two Tamil Folktales / Kamil V. Zvelebil
The Maze of Fantasy in Tamil Folktales /Nanzan University
Adanganmurai Thevara Thiruppathikan /A. S. Gnanasambandan
The Seasons of Cankam /Agenda Editions
Ritual and mythological sources of the early Tamil poetry /A. M Dubianskii
A critical study of Naccinarkkiniyar / K Arumugham
Tamil Studies /M Srinivasa Aiyangar
Kavya in South India /American Oriental Society
Tamil literature. / University of Oklahoma
The Study of Stolen Love (English translation of an important work of Tamil poetics.) / David C. Buck, K. Paramasivam
The Lost Land of Lemuria /Sumathi Ramaswamy
Passions of the Tongue /Sumathi Ramaswamy
Modern Tamil stories / Jean Johnson
Tirouvallouvar / Gnandu Diagou
Tamil Language and Literature /S. R. Sharma
Five Tamil Dalit poems. /University of Oklahoma
Translating Tamil Dalit poetry. /University of Oklahoma
First Comes the Night, Tamil Short Stories / Adhavan
The Seasons of Cankam /Agenda Editions
The adventures of the Gooroo noodle (A tale in the Tamil language )/Costantino Giuseppe Beschi
5. Books on Tamil/Hindu Religion
The Tamil Veda / John Carman
Poems to Siva /Indira Viswanathan Peterson
Siva Bhakti / R. Nagaswamy
The Poets of the Powers /Kamil V. Zvelebil
Tamil Traditions on Subrahmanya-Murugan /Kamil V. Zvelebil
Singing the Body of God /Steven Paul Hopkins
Vaisnava iconography in the Tamil country / R Champakalakshmi
Patrons, Devotees and Goddesses /American Oriental Society
Psalms of a Saiva Saint /T. Tambyah Isacc
Siva in the Forest of Pines /Don Handelman
Tamil Temple Myths /David Dean Shulman
Extraordinary Child /Paula Richman
Women, branch stories, and religious rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist text /Paula Richman
Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints /F. Kingsbury
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics /Takanobu Takahashi
Religion as emancipatory identity /G Aloysius
Symbols of Substance / Velcheru Narayana Rao
Slaves of the Lord- Path of the Tamil Saints / Vidya Dehejia
Moral fictions / Stuart H Blackburn
Siddhanta Deepika or, The Light of Truth /J. M. Nallasami Pillai
Donors, Devotees, and Daughters of God /Leslie C. Orr
Saivite symbols, sacrifice, and Tamil Tiger rites. /Thomson Gale
6. Books on Tamil History, Tamil People, Tamil Culture, ...
The Tamils 1800 Years Ago /V Kanakasabhai
Chera, Chola, Pandya /University of Hawaii Press
Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the S... / Iravatham Mahadevan
Early Tamil Epigraphy /Thomson Gale
History and Culture of Tamil Nadu Volume one up to AD 1310 /Chithra Madhavan
Buddhism Among Tamils in Pre-Colonial Tamilakam and Ilam: Prologue : The Pre-Pallava and the Pallava Period/ Peter Schalk
The Politics of South India 1920-1937 /Christopher John Baker
Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India /Pamela G. Price
Tamil culture / A Kiruttinan
Pre-Aryan Tamil Culture /P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar
Tamil culture and civilization; /Xavier S Thani Nayagam
Caste in Tamil Culture /Bryan Pfaffenberger
The Chronology of the Early Tamils /Pillai Sivaraja
Neolithic and Megalithic Cultures in Tamil Nadu /B. Narasimhaiah
The philosophy of the Tamil Siddhas /T. N Ganapathy
Notes on Love in a Tamil Family /Margaret Trawick
Early Capitalism and Local History in South India /David Ludden
Stigmas Of The Tamil Stage /Susan Seizer
Play, Symbolism, and Ritual /Vasumathi K. Duvvury
Devadasi system in medieval Tamil Nadu /K Sadasivan
A Tamil Asylum Diaspora /Christopher McDowell
Singing of Birth and Death / Stuart H. Blackburn
Inner Courtyard; Stories by Indian Women / Lakshmi Holmstrom
Politics and social conflict in South India /Eugene F Irschick
Death and Afterlife in a Tamil Village /Nathalie Peyer
Hierarchy and marriage alliance in South Indian kinship..(Louis Dumont )
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India /Sara Dickey
Castes, Customs, Manners and Literature of the Tamils /Casie Chitty Simon
Caste consciousness among Indian Tamils in Malaysia / Rajakrishnan Ramasamy
Dalits and Christian mission in the Tamil country / F. J Balasundaram
Social History of the Tamils /P. Subramanian
Tamil Catholic literary tradition of Sri Lanka / Gnanamuthu Victor Pilendran
Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils (tamil cooking) / Rani Thangarajah
Cuisine from Tamil Nadu /Ranee Vijaya Kuttaiah
7 Books on Sri Lankan Tamils / Freedom struggle in Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Tamil Nationalism /A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
Politics of Tamil Nationalism in Sri Lanka /Ambalavanar Sivarajah
Sri Lankan Tamil nationalism /Murugar Gunasingam
Peacemaker turns warrior /Royal Institute of International Affairs
Tigers of Lanka / M. R. Narayan Swamy
S.J.V. Chelvanayakam and the Crisis of Sri Lankan Tamils / A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
The Break-Up of Sri Lanka /A. Jeyaratnam Wilson
The Tamil National Question and the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord / N. Seevaratnam
Ethnic Attachments in Sri Lanka /Lakshmanan Sabaratnam
The Cyanide War /Edgar O'Ballance
Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka / Chelvadurai Manogaran
The Tamils of Sri Lanka, MRG Report 25 /Walter Schwarz
Current Crisis in Sri Lanka /Rajiva Wijesinha
India, Sri Lanka and the Tamil Crisis 1976-1994 /Alan J. Bullion
Political Violence in Sri Lanka, 1977-1990 /Jagath P. Senaratne
Dynamics of Tamil Nadu politics in Sri Lankan ethnicity /G Palanithurai
8 Books on Tamil Music, Dance and Drama, Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu
Carnatic Music and the Tamils /T. V. Kuppuswami
Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu /American Oriental Society
Art and Culture of Tamil Nadu / R. Nagaswami
Folklore of Tamil Nadu Comale
Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu /Nanditha Krishna
Seven Carmels of Tamilnadu /Victor Sanmiguel
Tamil-India Bible /American Bible Soc
The Intra-Group Dimensions of Ethnic Conflict in Sri Lanka / Kenneth D. Bush
Word, Sound, Image /Saskia Kersenboom
Nityasumangali /Saskia Kersenboom;
Pavalar Chariththira Thespakam ; Or, The Galaxy of TamJ. R Arnold
Contemporary Tamil short fiction /Rupa & C0 Distributors
Trading World of the Tamil Merchant / Kanakalatha Mukund
The Political Behaviour of Women in Tamil Nadu /V. Rajalakshmi
Common Malaysian fruits, with Thai and Tamil names /Betty Molesworth Allen
Peasant Moorings : Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India (Publications of the Department of Social Sciences (Institut Francais De Pondichery), No. 4./ Jean Luc Racine
Labour Movement in Tamilnadu, 1918-1933 /C. S. Krishna
A. Madhaviah (Tamil author) / Sita A. Raman
The Historical Material from the Private Diary of Ananda Ranga Pillai ; /Ananda Ranga Pillai
Ancient Tamil Country /S. Sundararajan
Art panorama of Tamils /Avvai Natarajan
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