One of my favorite pass time for last 3 years is to watch a movie and simultaneously scan books I got from the library. Over the past 3 years I have acquired many books through inter library loan and book fairs and stores.I haven’t read most of the books. So I cant recommend some of the books. So I decided to put up list of books I have in new page and distinguish it from my recommended books.
Author: Kamil Zvelebil
- Smile of Murugan
- Tamil Literature
- Companion Studies to History of Tamil Literature
- Poets of Power
- Shidda Quest
- Thirumurugan
- Tamil traditions on Subrahmanya Murugan
- Tamil Kandapuranam
- Literary convetions of Akam poetry
- Tamil from inscription of 550 AD
- Lexicon of Tamil Literature
- 15 Poems from Tamil Anthology
- Interior landscape
- Poems of Love and war
- Hymns of drowning
- The Poems of Ancient Tamil, Their Milieu and Their Sanskrit Counterparts
- The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom: An Anthology of Poems from Classical Tamil, the Purananuru *
- Poets of the Tamil Anthologies: Ancient Poems of Love and War
- The Forest Book of the Ramayana of Kampan *
- Kurunthokai – Shanmugam Pillai & David Ludden
- Ainkurunuru – P.Jyothimuthu
- Nattrinai – A.V.Subramanian
- Paripatal – Institute of Asian Studies
- Kalithokai — Institute of Asian Studies
- Six Long poems – International Institute of Tamil Studies
- Four Long poems – International Institute of Tamil Studies
- Ten Tamil Idylls – J.V.Chellaiah
- Tamil poetry through ages – Institute of Asian Studies
- Love Lyrics Long ago – A.V.Subramanian
- Sips from Sangam cup – A.V.Subramanian
- Tamil Verse in translation P.N.Appusamy
- Tamil Heroic poetry – Kailasapathy
- Tamil concept of Love – S.Vp.Manickam
- Tamil Love poetry and poetics – Takanobu Takahashi
- Landscape and Poetry – Thaninayagam
- Sangam Literature: its culture and cult – K.A.Nilakanta Shastri
- Home life among Tamils in the Sangam age – K.Gnambal
- Eight Anthologies – J.R.Marr
- The Chronology of Early Tamils – K.N.Shivaraja Pillai
- The Kaveri, The maukharis and the Sangam Age – T.G. Aravamuthan
- The Tamils 1800 years ago – V.Kanakasabhai
- Social Life of the Tamils – the classical period – S.Singaravelu
- Chieftains of the Sangam Age – Dr.K.D.Thirunavukkarasu
- Akananuru in its Histroical Setting – C.E.Ramachandran (has translations of first 100 akam poems)
- Shilapathikaram: The Ankel bracelet – Alain Daniélou
- Manimekhalai: the Dancer with the Magic Bowl -Alain Daniélou
- Cilapthikaram – Translated by Ramachandra Diskshitar
- Silapathikaram and Manimekalai (abridged versions)- Lakshmi Holmstorm
- Manimekalai – Translated by A.Madahviah
- Manimekalai as an epic – R.Natarajan
- The study of a Tamil Epic : several versions of Silapthikaram compared- Brenda Beck
- Tamil Literature – Minakshi Sundaram Pillai
- Studies in Tamil Literature – Ramachandra Dikshithar
- Tamil Studies – M.Srinivasa Aiyengar
- Encyclopedia of Tamil Literature Vol 1 – Institute of Asian Studies
- Encyclopedia of Tamil Literature Vol 2 – Institute of Asian Studies
- Encyclopedia of Tamil Literature Vol 3 – Institute of Asian Studies
- Studies in Tamil Indology – S.V.Subramanian
- Literary History in Tamil – Karthigesu Sivathamby
- Collected papers of Thaninayagam
- Bunch of essays on Tamil Literature – P.N.Appusamy
- Comparative Grammer of the Dravidian – Robert Cladwell
- Tamil Social history Volume 1(Sangam age) – N.Subrahmaniyan
- Tamil Social history Volume 2(medieval age) – N.Subrahmaniyan
- Tamil Social history Volume 3(later age) – N.Subrahmaniyan
- Ancient Dravidian – Shesha Aiyengar
- Tamil India – M.S.Purnalingam Pillai
- Historical heritage of Tamils – K.K.Pillay
- Caste system in Tamil Nadu – K.K.Pillay
- Maritime history of South India – Victor Rajamanickam & Arul Raj
- Beginnings of South Indian history – Krishnaswamy Aiyengar
- Colas – K.A.Nilakanta Shastri
- A history of South India – K.A.Nilakanta Shastri
- History and Culture of Tamil Nadu – vol 1- Chitra Mahadevan
- History and Culture of Tamil Nadu – vol 2- Chitra Mahadevan
- South Indian Missions – J.A.Sharrock
- The Tamil Plutarch – Simon Casie Chitty
- Murugan God of Kurunji- Collected Papers – Institute of Asian Studies
- Many Faces of Murugan – Fred Clothey
- Vision of Arunagiri a Tamil mystic – Fred Clothey
- Tamil Temple Myths – David Shulman
- Buddhism in Tamil Nadu – Collected Papers – Institute of Asian Studies
- Ravana the Great King of Lanka – M.S.Puranalingam Pillai
- The Thiruvacagam – G.U.Pope
- Hymns of the Tamil Saivite Saints – Kingsbury & Phillips
- Agastya in Tamil land – K.N.Shivaraja Pillai
- Introduction to Chintamanai – H.Bower
- Multholaayiram – Kurunjipaatu – P.N.Appusamy
- Kalingathu Parani – Institute of Asian Studies
- The story of Udayana – Raja Gopala Iyer
- The Naladiyar – G.U.Pope
- Tamil Wisdom – Edward Jewitt Robinson
- Early Tamil Epigraphy – Iravatham Mahadevan
- South Indian Inscriptions Volume 3- Archeological Society of India
- Epigraphia Indica volume 12- Archeological Society of India
- A classified collection of Tamil proverbs- Herman Jensen
- Tamil Proverbs with English Translations – P.Percival
- Iruchol Muchol alangaram – U.V.Swaminathan Iyer Publication
- Meengal andrum indrum – S.Parimala
- 401 Kathal kavithaigal (Kurunthokai) – Sujatha
- Purananuru -moolamum eliya uriayum- Sujatha
- Pathitruppathu – moolamum uraiyum – Rama Subramaniam
- Kaviyarasu Kannadasan Kavithaigalalil Sanga illakkiya selvakku – Dr.M.Jayapal
Author A.K.Ramanujan
Author : George L Hart
*Co author Hanf Heifetz
Ettuthokai Translations
Purananuru – Check the book Under author George Hart
Pathupaatu Translation
Assorted Translation:
Studies in Sangam Literature
Silapthikaram and Manimekalai
Tamil Studies
Tamil history
Religion:
Other Translations:
South Indian Inscriptions:
Tamil Proverbs
Books in Tamil
I actually have entire collection of Tamil books from U.V.Swaminathan Iyer publication in my book shelf in India!
Hope the list just grows!
Great! Collection!
How did you got interest in Tamil Literature ?
http://siththarkal.blogspot.com/
please visit the site fully,,read the posts and help us in translating it to english. Please render your service
Hi,
Is it possible to share some of your books with us?
Thanks,
Sundar
Great collection is it possible to share some of your books as they are rare and I couldnt get them even in libraries.
Dr. Girish G. Menon
Dear Vairam,
It is really a rare collection to get it for us even as a reference copy. Could U pls share it for academic purpose. As it would be good to get the interpretation of our Tamil literature in English.
Thanks & regards,
Dr. V.Dhanalakshmi
@ jagadeeswaran – It’s regarding the translation help that you’re looking for. I can help you with your task. I would be more than happy to help to serve my language. You can mail me @ mohanaganeshk@yahoo.com
If you put as ebooks on line it will be of use to me.I have a number of books for which there is no demand inAhmadabad even if i give it away free! purchasing and possessing books, here, need efforts to dust and clean up! Balasubrahmanyan
Mr Vairam
pls search “kamalakannan” in http://archive.org.
if interesting let me know. i will add more. i have painstakingly compiled about 500 volumes so far from many sites like archive.org, digital library of india etc…
i still remember your blog about “chaamaram and kavarimaan”…
m kamalakannan b tech chemical engg
Hi,
How do I find UV Swaminatha Iyer books and buy them. Asking for my father/
Awesome collection. Let me point out a minor typo: Items 74, 75, author is Chithra Madhavan.