It was authored by the ancient Tamil Saint Thiruvalluvar, and is considered to be one of the first literary works to focus on ethics, in Shramana literature of India. Thirukkural (Tamil: )” also known as the Kural) is a classic of couplets or Kurals (1330 rhyming Tamil couplets) or aphorisms celebrated not only by the Tamil people but all mankind. Dr Rajaram legitimately belongs to this scholar-civil servant tradition. This great tradition of scholar-civil servants was given a death blow after our independence by our political parties. Some of them specialised on a particular subject, but others had a larger circle of interests, such as Sir William Hunter KCSI, CIE (1840-1900), whose writings were distinguished by their variety and literary grace. One of the least recognized glories of British Raj in India relates to the fact that many outstanding Civil Servants and ICS Officers of that time, notwithstanding the heavy pressure of work found it possible to engage in literary pursuits or to combine with their official duties scholarly researches into Indian History, Philology, Religions, Ethnology, Numismatics, Archaeology, Ornithology, Economics etc. A midst his never ending and busy official preoccupations, Dr Rajaram has found it possible to produce this beautiful work of English translation of Thirukkural into Tamil.
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