KA Nilakanta Sastri
Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta Sastri (born August 12, 1892 in Kallidaikurichi , † June 15, 1975 in Madras ) was a Tamil historian.
Life and offices
KAN Sastri was the son of a Brahmin from Kallidaikurichi, a small town near Tirunelveli in what is now the Indian state of Tamil Nadu . After finishing school, he attended colleges in Tirunelveli and Madras. He then taught at the college in Tirunelveli for about 5 years. From 1918 to 1920 he taught at Banaras Hindu University , after which he got a job at Annamalai University with Chidambaram . In 1929 he received the professorship for history at the University of Tiruchirappalli , but shortly afterwards he switched to the professorship for history and archeology at the University of Madras ; he held this post until 1946. In the years 1952 to 1955 he was professor of Indology at the University of Mysore . From 1957 to 1972 he was director of the UNESCO Institute of Traditional Cultures of South East Asia .
Works
KAN Sastri wrote numerous standard works on topics of Tamil history and culture. The most important are:
- The Pāṇḍyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century (1929)
- The Colas (1935)
- The Tamil kingdoms of South India (1948)
- South Indian Influences in the Far East (1949)
- A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar (1955)
- The Culture and History of the Tamils (1964)
- Cultural Contacts Between Aryans and Dravidians (1967)
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SURNAME | Sastri, KA Nilakanta |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sastri, Kallidaikurichi Aiyah Nilakanta (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Tamil historian |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1892 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kallidaikurichi , Tamil Nadu |
DATE OF DEATH | 15th June 1975 |
Place of death | Madras , Tamil Nadu |