Dr. T.Pushkala
Research Fellow
Centre for Policy Studies
Working at the Department of Palm-leaf manuscripts
Tamil University
Thanjavur 613 005

Date of Birth: June 6, 1959

M. A. History, Thanjavur 1983
M. Phil (history), Annamalai University, 1989
(Thesis title: The Life and Works of Ta Ve Umamahesvaram Pillai)
Ph.D. (Manuscriptology), Tamil University, Thanjavur 1998
(Thesis title: Chengalpattu Avanangal – Samuha Poruladharam)

Research Assistant, Centre for Policy Studies since 1.10.1993
Research Fellow, Centre for Policy Studies since 1.9.1997
She has copied the locality accounts of nearly 200 localities during this period.

Publications:

Thirupporur and Vadakkuppattu: Eighteenth century Locality Accounts, (Co-Author) Centre for Policy Studies, Chennai 2001.

About 14 papers presented in various conferences and seminars on Manuscriptology and Eighteenth Century Tamil Society