This facsimile reprint is my humble and loving tribute to my illustrious fathers, firstly, to mark the centenary of my father, and secondly, to mark my own arrival to the age of sixty, in this year of 2007. I have always been very fond of my historian great grandfather. This very book, and his other famous book, History of the Tamils, moulded much of my own historical thinking and love for my motherland, Tamil Nadu and India. P.T. Srinivasa ...
