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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The first four articles were icad to literature and social sciences sections of Ist 290 llad conference Semin- ars of the International Association of Tamil Research, They are reproduced with acknowlegements to the 1. A, T. R. The last article on women in Tamil folk lore was publisheä in Folklore August 1968. Tam grateful to Sri Sankar Sengupta, the editor, folk lore for accord. ing permission to reproduce it in this book. I anı highiy indebted to Dr. S. K. Chatterji, National Professor in Humanities for the encouragenent he has given me, by writing the foreword to this book. My thanks are also due to Sri Sanker Sengupta for having written a preface to my book N, Vanamamalzi,
