I cant beleive whati have it in my hand right now. I am able to get 6 more papers ( Original conference proceedings). These are 30 years-40 years old papers. All the papers are related to cholas, their aliances, marriages and the political reason behind them. More and more cross references can be obtained from each paper. But, this time i have them as a hard copy. I dont have any pdf version. It is more than 150 papges and so, krupa, it will very difficult to sit and type all these things...
I can scan them and put them on the web. But the file size will be very big. Moreover, it will be a tedious process to scan them.
I can't believe what you've mentioned in your mail!.. It's really great!
I volunteer myself for typing the text - you can give me the entire lot! I am fast at typing (both Englisth and Tamil) and hence please send those papers to me a.s.a.p.
Looking forward to hear from you.
If the paper is clean and text is legible, then OCR scanners can actually scan and create text documents instead of creating images. Either way, I can be of help and please let me do this.
> Among them was one by Prof.Karashima. It was on the ChOlzas. > > Karashima has done monumental works in the ChOlza studies. > > Try to get all his his papers if possible.
Dr.Jaybee avargalae... Is that Nobura karashima. In that case, i have that one too ...:)This one is from inscriptions between 950 AD to 1200 AD.
Sorry for dragging this on and on. Right now, i will make a copy of all the papers and send one copy to ramacahandran (ramchi412@yahoo) , who is also in US and send another one to one of you in India. In the meanwhile, i 'll also scan the papers and fax it to krupa.
Sundar...neenga than odd one out. I'll figure out someway to send it to you too. It is entirely upto you people to decide who is going to type.
Also, Dr.Jaybee avargalae, The person u have mentioned, nobura Karashima, has published a book with all the collection of his papers and is titled " South Indian History and society - studies from Inscriptions AD 850-1800". The chapters include
Land holdings in chola times Integration of society in chola times Revenue systems of cholas and Pandyas Social and administreative systems as revealed from personal names and designations.
This book is published by
All India Press, Kennedy Nagar, Pondicherry 605001