Billed as the primary of its form, a division for Tamilology in north India will likely be established at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), because of a ₹5-crore help from the Tamil Nadu authorities.
At current, a Tamil stream is being run at JNU’s Centre for Indian Languages. It grew out of a Tamil chair, which was arrange in 2007. A professor and an assistant professor have been appointed. At current, a Ph.D course in Tamil is being supplied, however not the Master’s programme, factors out R. Thamotharan, Tamil professor at JNU, who has been made the coordinator for the institution of the division.
The division — Centre for Tamil — will deal with a bunch of features corresponding to conducting comparative research, providing a postgraduate course, translation of works by means of specialists, execution of tasks by means of visitor college members, a residency programme for Tamil researchers, workshops for lecturers and coordination with international universities.
The division will likely be created beneath a memorandum of understanding to be signed between the Director of Tamil Development and JNU, in line with a current order issued by the Department of Tamil Development and Information.
Prof. Thamotharan, also referred to as Aravendan, informed The Hindu on Tuesday that he had proposed to the State authorities to have two extra elements of labor to be carried out by means of the proposed division. Making use of the companies of teachers on the Centre for Linguistics at JNU, analysis on Tamil and different Dravidian languages could possibly be completed. And research on sociology and historical past of south India, together with Tamil Nadu, could possibly be carried out.
The quantity sanctioned — ₹5 crore — will likely be utilised as a set deposit. The curiosity therefrom will likely be used in the direction of wage for for lecturers and to fulfill the opposite important bills, in line with the order.
JNU Vice-Chancellor Santishree D. Pandit, in a letter written in Tamil to Chief Minister M.Ok. Stalin on Monday, thanked him for the monetary help and described the State authorities’s approval as his “great service to Tamil development”.
Source: www.thehindu.com