T. V. Venkatachala Sastry, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Kannada writer, lexicographer, grammar expert, critic and editor
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Place of Birth: Kanakapura, Karnataka, India
About T. V. Venkatachala Sastry
- Togere Venkatasubbasastry Venkatachala Sastry is a Kannada-language writer, grammarian, critic, editor and lexicographer.
- He has authored in excess of 100 books, translations and has edited collections of essays, biographical sketches and felicitation volumes.
- Recipient of the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award (honorary), Sastry is an authority on Kannada language grammar and its various facets ranging from the metre scale (Kannada: ?o?????) on which he has written extensively to the history of Kannada literature spanning two millennia. His book Mulukanadu Brahmanaru is a sociological study of the Mulukanadu community since the early 17th century, outlining their origin, migration and embrace of western education.
- It records in detail their history with over 50 family trees and assumes importance in the field of caste studies.
- Sastry was a Kannada professor at the University of Mysore and additionally held the post of Director at "Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe" before retiring in 1994.
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