First Lessons In Tamil: Or A Full Introduction To The Common Dialect Of That Language (HB)

About the book:- This little work has been written with a deep feeling of the vast importance of the acquisition by all who sojourn in the land of the language of the people among whom they dwell. Author has tired to state the facts of this noble language succinctly and clearly. The examples, with few exceptions, have been selected from books in universal use in the Tamil country. About the Author:-George Uglow Pope or G.U. Pope was an Anglican Christian missionary and Tamil scholar who spent 40 years in Tamil Nadu and translated many Tamil texts into English. His popular translations included those of the Tirukkural and Thiruvasagam. He later took to teaching, running his own school in Ootacamund for while and then moving to head the Bishop Cotton Boys' School in Bangalore and after returning to England worked as a Lecturer at Balliol College, Oxford. A statue on the Chennai beach recognises him for his contribution to the understanding and promotion of the Tamil language.