A. R. Venkatachalapathy
The writer is a Professor at the Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, and a member of the Board of Advisers of The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy. He is a historian and Tamil writer and has published widely on the social, cultural and intellectual history of colonial and postcolonial Tamil Nadu.
A leading British historian of colonial south India, David Washbrook, Research Professor in South Asian History, Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K., see
David Washbrook spoke to A.R. Venkatachalapathy on the status of university education and research in the U.K. Excerpts:
"The steady exchange of people, ideas and culture between the people of Tamil Nadu and Tamils around the world has built a virtual community, an