putting all the data google spreadsheet will be another option... but i am not sure what happens if many of us try to edit the same file at once... is thr any lock mechanism provided so that only one can at a time
ayyayo, vijay. Adhu ennoda tool illai. One of our old members, Sathya, initiated the move and created that database. She has become very old nowadays, adhaan aalaye kaanum.
Just finished editing the list.Added a few new ones and for some existing items added the links from Anyindian. Almost 70-80% of the books are available in Anyindian and I was adding the shopping cart while searching;-) But as somebody pointed out, the list is not a big one. Have a few questions though. How does 'Pulinagakkondrai' qualifies as a historical novel? I have read this one and it is a family history spanning a 100 years. By the same token 'Thalaimuraigal' by Neela.Padmanabhan, 'Moga mull' by Thi.Ja, 'J.J. Sila kurippugal' and 'Oru Puliyamarathin Kathai' by Sundara Ramasamy will all qualify as historical novels as they narrate stories spanning the last 100 years. So can we define some boundaries here? And I was actually thinking of adding 'Gopalla grammam' and 'Gopalla gramathu makkal' by Ki.Ra in the list. These are stories spanning a few thousand years going back and forth from the migration of the naickars of Telugu country during the Muslim invasion till recent times. Although not in a strict historical novel construct, can we add these?
Hi visited vanathi pathipagam today. Mr. Thiru.Ramanathanan told me about the novels that have gone " not in print" his opinion was that very few historical books go into the 5th or 6th edition and searching authorwise in connemara computerised catalougue would be the easist way to track those books. venketesh
Ayiram thiivu angkayarkaNNi and seraman kathali are historical novels of Kannadasan. but in his list of books are these two novels/ books with history sounding names
Umaiyan kOtai, paarimalaik kodi,
are they historical novels? anybody has read them?
this site is maintained by my uncle ( Dr Kalyanasundaram of project madurai)- he has just gone back to switzerland from a holiday in india. I will write to him tdy and see if he has any fresh lists /sources.
8000 novels written in tamil in the last 100 years or so. almost one novel published every four days.
I am sure of them at least 500 -1000 must be historical( king queen rajakumar etc as main charecters.) but now it makes our job tougher with a majority of them out of print we need to seek connemara library or institute of tamil studies or roja muthiah collection. venketesh
yes venkat - i was taken aback by the number...8000.and you are right about being out of print, even in big bookshops the tamil lang sections occupy a very small area...and even in that half is samayal kurippugal etc.
imagine the amount of effort these authors have put in to give form to their words and get them published...atleast we have their names listed...maybe if we can work on it and get some basic information into the catalogue - if it kindles some readers interests and if a very small % of the books are read - would be just reward for our efforts and a suitable reward for the long hours put in by these authors.
There is one more book written by Arinjar Anna, not a novel, but a collectiion of short historical stories in which he describes the consequence of historical events. for example, he analysed in the book why Paranjothi, the general of Narasimha pallava, turned into sivanadiyaar after the war. He analysed many events like this in story form. Unfortunately I forgot the title of the book. Can someone remember the title. One more book can be added, Mudintha koil by S.P.Mani. It was published by Vaasagar Vattam many years back.
Hi if the details are available and if the book is out of the copyright purview we could try to locate it in some private colection scan it and put it on the net. but then our priority should be historical boos still available. venketesh
that is one of the objectives of projectmadurai. it is a voluntary initiative to publish free versions of ancient Tamil literature on the Internet. Texts are published in both TSCII and Unicode formats. http://www.tamil.net/projectmadurai/
They do this by Distributed Proof-reading
"Distributed Proof-reading" is a web-based method (adopted from Project Gutenberg) for preparation of etexts of Tamil Literary works for Project Madurai. By breaking the work into individual pages several volunteers (based in different parts of the world) can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the keying in and proof-reading parts of the etext creation process.
Scanned image files of individual pages of printed version of Tamil works are stored in the web-server. Promads simply pick up one of these image files in a split screen window, where equivalent Tamil Text can be keyed in directly. The frame for display of the image and Tamil text can be in horizontal or vertical mode.
For Project Madurai, equivalent etext is keyed in Tamil script as per TSCII encoding. Several freeware Text Editors (e.g. Murasu Anjal, ekalappai) are available for use in Windows, Macintosh and Unix platforms that allow direct keying in of the Tamil text in the browser display window.
all texts are free to download and also available as pdf files with embedded tamil fonts
Maintaining the excel sheet would be an issue initially, you may have to repeatedly download/upload files and may lose somebody's change. Till we finalize the version 1, we can use Google Documents.
Tha advantages I think of
1 easy to collaborate, where multiple authors can edit at the same time, 2. maintain version history, revert it back if there is any issue 3. Can provide view only access to everybody through url 4. Allows to set the collaborators so that we can restrict only few people to modify
Once we created a basic version, we can create an excel sheet and host it in yahoo groups.
the best would be to appoint co ordinators and mail to them or if anybody has a novel to add send a mail to the group with one specific title. (like HISTORIC NOVEL FOR LISTING) the co ordinator can pick it up.
but I think the info will be a flood to start with but then trickle down due to paucity of info available. but seeing the list of 8000 books in one file was mind boggling. a real service it is.