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'Dravidian studies' (also 'Dravidology') is the academic field devoted to the Dravidian languages, literature and culture. It is a superset of Tamil studies, and a subset of South Asian studies.
16th to 18th century missionaries who wrote Tamil grammars or lexica include Henriques Henrique, Robert de Nobili, Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg and Constantino Giuseppe Beschi.
Pioneers of the field were Robert Caldwell, Johan van Manen, T. R. Sesha Iyengar, V. Kanakasabhai, P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, C. P. Brown, Ferdinand Kittel, Constantine Beschle, T. Burrow, M. B. Emeneau, Hermann Gundert, Kamil Zvelebil and Bhadriraju Krishnamurti.
The Dravidian University at Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh
has created Chairs in the names of Western and Dravidian scholars to encourage research in individual Dravidian languages as well as comparative Dravidian studies: Bishop Caldwell's Chair for Dravidian Studies, C. P. Brown's Chair for Telugu Studies, Kittel Chair for Kannada Studies, Constantine Beschle Chair for Tamil Studies and Gundert Chair for Malayalam Studies.^[1]

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References

1. Dravidian University fellowships, The Hindu, Saturday, Aug 26, 2006

Literature

★ Robert Caldwell, ''Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages'' (1856; revised edition 1875).

★ The Dravidian Languages, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, , , Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0521771110

★ Dravidian Studies: Selected Papers, Murray Barnson Emeneau, , , Motilal Banarsidass, 1994, ISBN 8120808584

★ Dravidian studies in the Netherlands, IIAS newsletter (2005) [1][2]

★ Extracts from T.R.Sesha Iyengar's "Dravidian India" by Dr. Samar Abbas, Bhubaneshwar, 4/8/2003

See also

★ South Asian studies

★ Proto-Dravidian

★ Elamo-Dravidian

External links

★ Literary Contributions of select list of Tamil Scholars from Overseas