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This bookan English translation of a key Tami book of literary and cultural criticismlooks at the construction of Tami scholarship through the colonial approach to Tami literature as evidenced in the first translations into English. The Tami original Atikramum tamip pulamaiyum: Tamiiliruntu mutal kila moipeyarppuka by N Govindarajan is a critique of the early attempts at the translations of Tami literary texts by East India Company officials, specifically by N E Kindersley. Kindersley, who was working as the Collector of South Arcot district in the late eighteenth century, was the first colonial officer to translate the Tami classic Read more