Program

Research Programs: Basic Research

Period of Performance

1/1/1986 - 6/30/1988

Funding Totals

$113,353.00 (approved)
$113,353.00 (awarded)


Nayak-Period Tamil Nadu: Literature and History

FAIN: RO-21189-86

Institute for the Study of Human Issues (Philadelphia, PA 19104-3318)
David D. Shulman (Project Director: March 1985 to November 2011)

To support a study of the social and cultural life of the Nadu tribe in the Tamil area of southern India from the mid-16th to the early 18th century, a time of great confluence among the three linguistic-cultural traditions.