Thanjavur Tamil University History

Hello sir, I am Yogendra YAdav. I am from Thanjavur. I want you to help me by providing me some information about the Thanjavur Tamil university history. Can you give me some details about it?

[Raman Vij]

Tamil University, Thanjavur is a type of public university.
It was formed in the year 1981.

It is located in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India.
It is affiliated by UGC.

The university is situated in a campus of about 900 acres
The administrative block with its gopuram motif can be seen from the National Highway connecting Thanjavur with Trichy.
The library is evocative of the Indian Parliament at New Delhi
The Tamil language, in the south of India is known for its antiquity, its richness of vocabulary and its classical literature.
For a long time these qualities were not known to the world outside. Orientalists such as Max Mueller, Keith and even Edwin Arnold identified the literature of India with Sanskrit only.

It is this negligence of Tamil in the British period that inspired a meeting of Tamil scholars at Thanjavur to consider starting a university for the development and growth Tamil in August, 1925.
But, perhaps due to the lack of patronage from the government, the plan did not materialise.

In post-independent India, in September 1981, the location of the Tamil University was chosen on the outskirts of Thanjavur.
The Tamil Nadu State Assembly unanimously passed the Tamil University Act in the second week of September 1981 and the first Vice-Chancellor took office a week later, The University Grants Commission gave recognition to the university in 1983.

Contact:
Tamil University
Thanjavur – 613010
Tamil Nadu, India
Phone: 04362 226720
FAX: 04362 226159