Dravidiology

The Government of India, at the time of the Silver Jubilee Celebration of the Annamalai University, made a grant for the development of Tamil Studies, and, at the instance of Sri T. M. Narayanaswami Pillai as Vice-Chancellor, a Committee under the Chairmanship of Dr. S. K. Chatterjee (the Chairman of the Legislative Council, West Bengal) prepared a blue print for the development of Tamil and Dravidian Studies. One of the recommendations was to reprint rare books on Dravidiology, not now available.

1961, M[urray] B[arnson] Emeneau, “Introduction”, in Kolami: A Dravidian Language (Publications in Linguistics), 2nd edition, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu: Annamalai University

This book, then, is a complete introduction to Dravidiology: to a discipline, that is, that till a short while ago, at least, was looked upon as a sort of ‘stepdaughter’ of Indology. […] Yet comparative Dravidiology which is worthy of the name cannot overlook the speech of the humblest Dravidian-speaking inhabitants of the jungle whose idioms are scientifically instructive for an important reason on which Andronov does not fail to lay due stress.

Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East

1972 March–June, Gustav Glaesser, “Linguistics: M. S. Andronov, Dravidian Languages (Translated from the Russian by D.M. Segal […]).”, in Giuseppe Tucci, editor, East and West, volume 22, numbers 1–2, Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente [Italian Institute for the Middle and the Far East], pages 155 and 157