- Kausalya Hart
Kausalya Hart ( _ta. கவ்சல்யா ஹார்ட்) is a scholar of
Tamil language atUC Berkeley . She is famous for translatingSangam literature from Tamil to English and for writing many Tamil textbooks. [ [http://ls.berkeley.edu/dept/sseas/people/faculty.html Alexander v. Rospatt, Department Chair] Dept. of S & SE Asian Studies - UC Berkeley]Life
She was born in
Madurai in the late 1930's. She received an M.A. from Annamalai University in 1962. She is married to Tamil scholarGeorge L. Hart .Work
She wrote the book Tamil for Beginners, widely used in universities. She has also written several Tamil plays. She has written papers on Tamil literature, including the Tamil Ramayana and aspects of early Christian literature.
References
External links
* [http://www.yale-university.com/ycias/southasia/languages/tamil.htm South Asian Studies Council] - Yale University
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X(1993)56%3A1%3C75%3ATEWIVS%3E2.0.CO%3B2-U Tamil Expressives with Initial Voiced Stops M. B. Emeneau, Kausalya Hart] - Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, Vol. 56, No. 1 (1993), pp. 75-86
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