Tamil Heritage Trust
Lecture on "Place Names and Migration of Communities in South India" by Dr Subbarayalu
6.00 pm IST on Friday, August 12, 2022 at Arkay Convention Centre, Mylapore, Chennai 600004.
The event online
Dr Y Subbarayalu, eminent epigraphist and historian, is the Winner of the V Venkayya Epigraphy Award in its inaugural year 2022.
The Award was instituted by Smt. Sunitha Madhavan, the
great-granddaughter of Shri V Venkayya. The Award commemorates Rai
Bahadur Shri V Venkayya, a pioneering Epigrapher who was the first
Indian Chief Epigraphist to the Government of India. The annual V
Venkayya Epigraphy Award (VVE Award) aims to recognize exceptional
individual contributions, any Indian language, towards the discovery of
unrecorded inscriptions, interpretation of inscriptions from a
refreshingly new perspective, dissemination of wealth of knowledge
contained in them by conventional as well as digital medium and
preservation of Epigraphic resources for posterity.
The winner was chosen by a jury comprising experts from the field of
epigraphy, history, and heritage. The Award will be presented by the
Chief Guest of the occasion, Sri K R A Narasiah, author and historian.
Born in 1940, Dr. Y Subbarayalu is one of India’s pre-eminent
epigraphers and historians. He was awarded Ph.D. for his thesis “State
in Medieval South India, 600-1350 AD”. He has held several academic
positions in institutions like Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai,
Tamil University, Thanjavur, etc., He also served as Visiting Professor
at the University of Tokyo and EPHE, Paris. He was a researcher in the
Department of Indology for more than a decade in the French Institute of
Pondicherry.
He was General President of the Indian Epigraphical Society Conference,
General President of the Indian History Congress, and Member of the
Indian Council of Historical Research etc., He directed archaeological
excavations at several places including Vallam, Kodumanal and
Periyapattinam. He was a Member of the Indo-Japanese project for
archaeological explorations in Vietnam, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Thailand, Kampuchea and Sri Lanka to study South India--Southeast Asia
trade and cultural contacts. He was a Co-ordinator for the project on
Historical Atlas of South India undertaken at the French Institute of
Pondicherry.
Dr. Subbarayalu has authored, co-authored, and edited many books,
publications, and articles. Among them are South India Under The Cholas
and Glossary of Tamil Inscriptions; Co-authored with Noboru Karashima
and Toru Matsui A Concordance of the Names in the Chola Inscriptions. He
has edited South Indian Inscriptions, Vol. XXXIV for ASI and co-edited
Inscriptions of the Vijayanagara Rulers, Vol. V, Part I (Tamil
Inscriptions).
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