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Kāvya in South India. Old Tamil Caṅkam Poetry. Delhi: Manohar 2017
Reprint of 2001 edition, with a new preface:
https://www.manoharbooks.com/BookDetails/136178/Kavya-in-South-India-Old-Tamil-Cankam-Poetry
Between Colombo and the Cape. Letters in Tamil, Dutch and Sinhala, Sent to Nicolaas Ondaatje from Ceylon, Exile at the Cape of Good Hope (1728-1737). Dutch Sources on South Asia c. 1600-1825. Delhi: Manohar, 2015.
The Ondaatje Letters 1728-1737
Publication:
“Letters dealing with the slave trade from Ceylon: The Ondaatje correspondence, 1728 to 1737”. Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, Vol. 67, no. 3 (July to September 2013), pp. 113-122 and 125. For a pdf, see QB.
Cape Town lecture on the Ondaatje Letters
Lecture held in Cape Town on Wednesday 24 April 2013, 12.30-13.30:
“Between Colombo and Cape Town: The Tamil Ondaatje letters 1728-1737”
Venue: Western Cape Archives and Records Service, 72 Roeland Street, Cape Town (South Africa)
Herman Tieken 