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K. V. Subbiah in the Indian Antiquary to write on Dravidian phonetics, but he has not pursued his investigations. Latterly, under the auspices of the Madras University four pamphlets were issued as the result of the work of the Readers appointed fifteen year ago, Of the work done in recent years, prominent mentiou must be made of that turned out by the late Mr. R Swaminatha Aiyar of Madras. His study of the Dravidian tense-suffixes and Dravidian pronouns embodied in two papers read before the Oriental Conference at Poona in 1919 and Madras in 1924, forms a noteworthy contribution to Dravidian philology. He was a scholar disinterestedly devoted to philological studies. He opened up a new line of investigation and much was expected of him, but he was cut off from his studies all too soon.
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