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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi if the details are available and if the book is out of the copyright purview we could try to locate it in some private colection scan it and put it on the net. but then our priority should be historical boos still available. venketesh

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MGR's RajaRajan
that was rajaraja cholan

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Catalogue of historical novels
-Phenomenal 8000 novels written in tamil in the last 100 years or so. almost one novel published every four days. I am sure of them at least 500 -1000 must be historical( king queen rajakumar etc as main charecters.) but now it makes our job tou…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Ayiram thiivu angkayarkaNNi and seraman kathali are historical novels of Kannadasan. but in his list of books are these two novels/ books with history sounding names Umaiyan kOtai, paarimalaik kodi, are they historical novels? anybody has read t…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi this seems a comprehensive list of works of authors of 20th century http://members.tripod.com/~kkalyan/novel.html

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Catalogue of historical novels

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi visited vanathi pathipagam today. Mr. Thiru.Ramanathanan told me about the novels that have gone " not in print" his opinion was that very few historical books go into the 5th or 6th edition and searching authorwise in connemara compu…

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REACH FOUNDATION WORKSHOP :: 05.08.2007 Sunday
Hi Chandra thats great could not attend because of sanipeyarchi and related activities. as a show of appreciation i have a gift for you. 5-6 old sudhananda bharathi books which have come to my possesion and 2 bound sets of ps and ss which you w…

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martial art forms followed in ancient TN
So immense > were the fighting techniques of Tamilakkam, that not even Asoka's army or the > Moghuls could conquer these lands until the arrival of the British after the > 1600s. > . > Hi a lot of these conquest stuff is …

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi Vijay I have commenced a wikipedia article on tamil historical novels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_historical_novels we could simultaneously upgrade in wikipedia as we do it in our group.

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi author, title, publisher, last edition book size ,4 lines description from those who have read it would suffice initially. links to other sites if any would suffice. we could host the entire text onto wikipedia. for example author …

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Catalogue of historical novels
hi anyindian.com has a good colection too youngsters working hard run it venketesh

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Aadi perukku vazhthukkal
Hi sundar just curious. so many of you living in the banks of the cauvery have such memorable experiences on adi perukku. what used to happen when there was no water in the river( or is this a recent phenomenon with dams in karnataka) how was a…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi there must be atleast a 100-150 novels which were serialised in magazines.they propably were not published at all. we should try to list them too. a well planned visit to some of these magazines should help i feel vanathi is the biggest publ…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi the more you think of topics the more you get convinced that we MAY NOT HAVE more than 100 titles totally. many of them must be out of print also. we must list libraries they are available in. or create a common library from our collections to…

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Catalogue of historical novels
-Hi many writers and poets have tried their hand at atleast one historical novel. we should tabulate all of them. mu metha- sozha nila about vijayalayan is one that come to my mind. any computerised catalougue in a library can give us the full li…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi Sps mgrs last movie was a flop. just like our criketers who dont retire with a flourish but then some trivia about mgr he did a movie called "Rajarajan" in 1958. sivaji did one called "raja raja cholan" later. there are m…

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Catalogue of historical novels
-yES SIR kayalvizhi was made as a movie "Madurai meetta sundara pandian" by thalaivar whose lisp in the voice made kayalvizhi( actress latha sound like kelavi) lovely songs but flopped at the box office we should also mention in the li…

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi we have forgotten a very important man. mu.ka- has authored 100 books of which some do come under historical fiction Romapuri Pandian, Thenpandi Singam, Ponnar Sankar, come to my mind though I have not read it. venketesh

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Catalogue of historical novels
Hi add vikramans novels Pallava Period Udhayachandiran Kanchisundari Kadalmallai Kaadhali Kovoor Koonan Parivadini Manikkaveenai Pandya Period Pandyan Mahudam Pagaivanin Kaadhali Kanni Kottai Elavarasi Chola Period Nandipurattu Naayagi Kul…

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AADIPPERUKKU :: 3rd AUGUST :: FRIDAY
Wishing you all-esp. those of you living on the banks of Cauvery- a very enjoyable & memorable Aadi Perukku 2007 & hoping She will be in full spate in the future years too. Thanks for the reminder too. > Regards > Shobha Wish us c…

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RjC & Gazni
Hi Rajendra's Expedition to the Ganges( from wiki) With both the Western and Eastern Chalukya fronts subdued, Rajendra's armies undertook an extraordinary expedition. C. 1019 C.E. Rajendra's forces continued to march through Kalin…

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South Indian historic information in Wikipiedia
Hi I am sure wikipedia has nothing against south indian history. just a few weeks back there was an article on "pearl fisheries of ancient tamilnadu" I dont think we have discussed it yet on our group. was interesting. venketesh

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Compare AK, RRC and RJC
-Hi the central part of india from m.p onwards to even kanyakumari is a raised structure. includes deccan plateu and the ghats very difficult logisticaly for armies to cross.(people did but at great strain) it was easier to conquer along the coas…

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Senji Fort...
In Ponniyin Pudalvar, Kalki's biography, his biographer Sunda has mentioned that Kalki had a near-death drowning experience when he was a small boy and that's the reason he repeats floods and drownings in his novels like PS, SS and als…

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Senji Fort...
Hi talk about co-incidences from the gingee fort website Gingee Under the Pallavas :- (600 A.D. to 900 A.D.) During the reign of the Pallavas a cave temple was excavated in the natural hill in Singapuram. They built a temple in Panamalai whic…

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Senji Fort...
Hi Sivaram just culled some history of the fort for you from a net source. if you want to realise the real impact of gingee read kalki's idintha kottai. superb history Jain Saints had dwelled in the hills of Gingee from 2-nd century to 6 th…

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Veera vasanams In PS
a hypothesis- call it loud thinking olaga madevi was possibly the youngest of the lot and must have been kundavi's daughter. see they take auctions in temples much later. as if kundavi would allow anybody else to be the chief queen. luck for …

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Is it true ?
-rumours include kalaignars vasanam and ilayaraaja's music

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what is the signifiance of these lizards
> A Hidden Mickey is a partial or complete image of Mickey Mouse that > has been hidden by Disney's Imagineers, artists or cast members in > Disney attractions, hotels, restaurants, stores, etc. These images are > designed to bl…

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