Preserving Early Tamil Serials

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Description & Rationale

This project aims to digitize three early Tamil serials namely, Kumari malar, Makaḷir cintaṉai and Pēcum paṭam. These serials focused on subjects such as literature, feminism and early Tamil movies respectively. Roja Muthiah Research Library (RMRL) has almost full run of these serials which are important source material for researchers.

Reasons for consideration:

The above said serials were considered important by scholars and brought out interesting and contemporary issues in their respective areas.

Kumari Malar was started in the year 1943 as a monthly magazine by A. K. Chettiar. It carried out high standard essays about Tamil literature, psychology, handicraft, spirituality and politics. In the first issue it was mentioned that this magazine was inspired by the English magazine ‘Penguin new writing’. This serial ceased in 1984. In Kumari Malar, A. K. Chettiar served as the editor. Articles of many important personalities of those times such as Ve. Saminatha Sharma, Desika Vinayagam Pillai, T. S.Chockalingam, T.K.C. have been published in this magazine. Identifier 74996756

Makaḷir cintaṉai was published by the Tamil Nadu State Committee of the All-India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA), starting in 1984, carries news of the AIDWA and works on women's progress. It carries articles condemning violence against women and girl children, medical notes for women, poems on women's awareness, and book reviews. Some well-known contributors for the magazine Makaḷir cintaṉai were Papa Umanath, Maithili Sivaraman, A. Mangai, Vasuki, and Sudha. Identifier None

Pēcum paṭam is one of the earliest serials for Tamil film industry published in Tamil. It was started in 1942 in Chennai. This serial is one of the best sources to understand the early movies of Tamil Nadu. It carried movie reviews, happenings in studios, information about movie personalities, photographs of movie personalities and much more about Tamil movies. Many researchers working in the area of early Tamil movies, history of modern Tamil Nadu and feminism in Tamil Nadu are now looking for these three serials. As these serials are not available online and only available with very few repositories, the researchers have to travel to the repositories to access them. Hence, reformatting will help researchers all over the world to access these serials for their research.In Pēcum paṭam, TV Ramnath served as Managing director and P. R. S. Gopal served as the editor. Identifier None

Author(s):

Various Authors

Publisher(s):

Kumari Malar – A.K. Chettiar Makaḷir cintaṉai - Tamil Nadu State Committee of the All-India Democratic Women's Association Pecum Padam – T.V. Ramnath; Ramnath Publication Pvt. Ltd.

Source Format:

Paper

Target Format:

Digital

Program:

SAMP

Resource Types:

Serials

Regions:

South Asia

Countries of Origin:

India

Proposal Contributors:

Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai, India.

Posted:

Feb 27, 2023 4:34pm

Updated:

Mar 13, 2024 10:41am

Source Details

Major Languages:

Tamil

Holding Institutions:

All the available issues of Pēcum paṭam and Kumari Malar are currently under the holdings of the Roja Muthiah Research Library. Complete run of Makaḷir cintaṉai is with the All-India Democratic Women's Association, Chennai.

OCLC:

74996756 - Kumari Malar

Source and Holdings:


Location	Format	Holdings/Range	Notes
Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai	Paper (physical volumes)	Pēcum paṭam 1944-1981 (268 issues)	Most of the material are in proper condition. Few issues are damaged.
Roja Muthiah Research Library, Chennai	Paper (physical volumes)	Kumari Malar 1943-1984 (302 issues)	Most of the material are in proper condition. Few issues are damaged.
All-India Democratic Women's Association, Chennai	Paper (physical volumes)	Makaḷir cintaṉai 1984-2022 (444 issues)	All the items are in good condition.

Source and Holdings Notes:

Run of Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika is housed at the Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya (MPP). Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika is published by Vinay Kumar Kasajoo, Palpa.

Physical Details:

The size of the Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika is 24 cm x 18 cm and contains 18 pages (average) per issue. The size and number of page may vary at times.

Existing Reformatted Materials:

No reformatted materials of the proposed run of this periodical are known to exist. The pdf format of the each digitized issue will be made available to reader/ researcher

Intellectual Property Considerations:

Satya Samācāra Sāptāhika was published by Vinay Kumar Kasajoo, Palpa. Request letter for permission to digitize and host online the proposed run has already been submitted to the publisher/editor family (Ms. Ganga Kasajoo) and we foresee no hurdles in obtaining the approval.

Activity

Status	Current	Description
Flagged	no	The proposal is flagged for further research.
Vetted	no	The proposal has been examined and vetted.
Ballotted	no	The proposal is currently on a committee ballot.
Approved	yes	The proposal has been selected for reformatting. Reformatting efforts are pending.
Reformatted	no	The proposal has been reformatted and access information is now posted.
Inactive / Declined	no	No longer under consideration for reformatting.