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The principal object of the Institute is to promote, by all means,the research in
all aspects of Tamil Studies and also in interdisciplinary fields with the active
co-operation of International Scholars who evience great interest in the fields
of Tamilology. Second International Conference-Seminar on Tamil Studies held at
Madras(now renamed as Chennai) in January 1968,Scholars put forward the proposal
to establish a Research Institute for Tamilology with the view to carrying out co-ordinated
and comprehensive research in all aspects of Tamil Studies and allied fields.
* Thiru C.N.Annadurai, then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, supported
the idea and the proposal for creation of the Institute was unanimously mooted in
the Conference-Seminar and transmitted to UNESCO.
* In November 1968,the resolution of Tamil Studies was
adopted by the General Coference of UNESCO. During the Third International Conference-Seminar
of Tamil Studies in Paris,The Report of the Establishment of the International Institute
of Tamil Studies was submitted.
* As a result the International Institute of Tamil Studies
was established on 21st October 1970.
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