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Kausalya Hart (Tamil: கௌசல்யா ஹார்ட்) is a scholar of Tamil language at UC Berkeley. She is famous for translating Sangam literature from Tamil to English and for writing many Tamil textbooks.[1]
Life
[edit]Kausalya Hart is a scholar of Tamil. She taught in the Department of South Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written many books for students and has translated many works of bhakti literature from the 6th to 15th century CE.
Work
[edit]She wrote the book Tamil for Beginners, widely used in universities. She has written several Tamil plays and much other material for teaching Tamil. She has written papers on Tamil literature, including the Tamil Ramayana and aspects of early Christian literature. Her translations include many works of Tamil bhakti literature from the 6th to the 15th centuries and also the Manimekalai and the Kalingattu Parani. Her translations are available on the Project Madurai website.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Dept. of S & SE Asian Studies - UC Berkeley". Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2011.
- ^ "Project Madurai". www.projectmadurai.org. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
External links
[edit]- South Asian Studies Council[permanent dead link] - Yale University
- Tamil Expressives with Initial Voiced Stops M. B. Emeneau, Kausalya Hart - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1993), pp. 75–86
- 1930s births
- University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
- Indian emigrants to the United States
- Tamil writers
- American people of Indian Tamil descent
- American Hindus
- Writers from Madurai
- Living people
- Annamalai University alumni
- American women writers of Indian descent
- American academics of Indian descent
- Women writers from Tamil Nadu
- Tamil–English translators
- 21st-century American women
- Indian scholars
- Indian academic biography stubs