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Digital Tamil Studies

சா. ஜே. வே. செல்வநாயகம் சேகரம்

S. J. V. Chelvanayakam Fonds

The fonds reflects Chelvanayakam’s career as a political leader of the Sri Lankan Tamil community, as well as documenting the daily operations of the Federal Party. The fonds documents important political events in Sri Lanka from the 1950s to the 1970s and provides witness to the struggles faced by Sri Lankan Tamils. The fonds also contains records relating to his family, background, and memorial material collected after his death by his wife, Emily Grace Chelvanayakam. The fonds is organized into three series and covers the periods of 1933-1937, 1939-1940, 1944-1988, with the bulk of the material being from the 1960s and 1970s. Personal records include correspondence, personal items, financial and estate documentation, and other material. Professional records include office files, party records, correspondence, and documentation. Memorial material includes posters, newspaper clippings, and a book of condolences. The digitized material is a selection of files from Series 2: Professional material. If you have question about the physical fonds, please contact UTSC Library Archives and Special Collections.

நாட்டுடைமையாக்கப்பட்ட மற்றும் பொது உரிம தமிழ் நூல்கள்

Tamil Nationalized and Public Domain Books Collection

The Tamil Nationalized and Public Domain Books Collection consist of more than 650 subvolumes (1100 works - 210,000 pages) of seminal Tamil works of the 20th century, spanning a range of subjects, including Tamil literature, folklore, grammar, history, politics, culture, religion, arts, science and technology. Further, the collection consists of dictionaries, lexicons, encyclopedias, and biographies. Pioneering and prominent Tamil writers represented in the collection include poet Bharathidasan, political writer Ve Saminatha Sarma, musicologist Abraham Pandithar, and technology historian A. Irakavan. Tamil Nadu government has released the vast majority of these works to the public domain. Thamizhmann publishers have compiled and published editions of these works over the past 30 years.

கொங்கு நாட்டுச் சேகரம்

Kongu Nadu Collection

Between December 1st, 1964 and August of 1966, Social Anthropologist Dr. Brenda Beck lived in the village of Olappalayam, 6 miles East of the town of Kangayam in Tamil Nadu. During this time, Dr. Beck collected a wealth of primary research materials with the assistance of research assistant, K. Sundaram of Olappalayam. This collection, curated and described in collaboration with a postdoctoral Fellow at UTSC (Shanmugapriya) makes available images, documents, and digitized recordings describing festivals, ceremonies, and rituals. In particular, the collection of folksongs (துதிப் பாட்டு, ஊர்த்தொகைப்பாடல், ஒப்பாரி பாடல், வீர பாடல் and பக்தி பாடல் ) and folk tales (குலமரபுக் கதை, சாதியக் கதை, நீதி விளக்கக் கதை, நீதி விளக்கக் கதை, and பழங்கதை) are distinctive to the region. Together, this collection provides a window into the cultural landscape of Kongu Nadu in the mid 1960s.