Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics and Culture – Book Review - M Joseph
Generally the history of India ends with the Independence of India. The famous Indian historian Ramachandra Guha emphasizes the need and importance of writings on the post colonial history of India in one of his interview or article. He specifically mentions C.N Annadurai. Towards that historian A.R. Venkatachalapathy’s book, Tamil Characters: Personalities, Politics and Culture, published by Pan Macmillan India, 2018, makes a valid attempt to record the history of post colonial Tamil Nadu, though peripherally. The Tamil personalities like Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, C.N. Annadurai and the like and other historical events pertinent to Tamils and Tamil Nadu, with due recognition along with their contribution are well presented in this book. Books on such kind will give deeper insight into the post colonial history of Tamils and Tamil Nadu to the International community. I was very much surprised and shocked to see the book which does not have any references and foo