Bøker av Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy

First published in 1940, Buddhism and Tamil was one of the pioneering attempts to trace the history of Buddhism in the Tamil country. The book challenges the then-prevalent belief that Tamil is synonymous with Saivism and problematises the simplistic understanding that Hinduism had always been the religion of India.

First published in 1954 by Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy, Samanamum Tamilum (Jainism and Tamil) is one of the earliest accounts introducing and explicating Jain philosophy, ethics, and doctrine to the modern Tamil reader. It also traces Jainism's arrival to the Tamil region, its growth and eventual fall.