page_title: T. V. Venkatachala Sastry
section_title: Research and literary criticism
hierarchical_section_title: T. V. Venkatachala Sastry / Literary contribution / Research and literary criticism
caption_attribution_description: English: "Mulukanadu Brahmanaru" by T. V. Venkatachala Sastry - A Study in Genealogy and Sociology of South Indian Brahminical Mulukanadu Sect, their origins and present day occupations.
context_page_description: Togere Venkatasubbasastry Venkatachala Sastry is a Kannada-language writer, grammarian, critic, editor and lexicographer. He has authored in excess of 100 books, translations and has edited collections of essays, biographical sketches and felicitation volumes. Recipient of the Kannada Sahitya Akademi Award, Sastry is an authority on Kannada language grammar and its various facets ranging from the metre scale on which he has written extensively to the history of Kannada literature spanning two millennia.
  His book Mulukanadu Brahmanaru is a sociological study of the Mulukanadu community since the early 17th century, outlining their origin, migration and embrace of western education. It records in detail their history with over 50 family trees and assumes importance in the field of caste studies. Sastry was a Kannada professor at the University of Mysore and additionally held the post of Director at "Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe" before retiring in 1994.
context_section_description: 1972 - Sāhitya Manthana
  1973 - Kannaḍa Nēminatha Purāṇagaḷa Taulanika Adhyayana
  1974 - Chamundaraya
  1979 - Shabdarthavihara
  1980 - Jaina Bhagavatha Bharathagalu: Ondu Sameekshe
  1981 - Prācīna Kannaḍa Sāhitya, Kelavu Nōṭagaḷu
  1981 - Muru Sameekshegalu
  1982 - Hosagannada Sahitya: Kelavu Notagalu
  1983 - Namma Karnataka
  1983 - Pampa
  1991 - Haleya Honnu
  1999 - Śāstrīya: Samputagalu 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
  2000 - Mulakanāḍu Brāhmaṇaru: Samudāya, Saṃskrti
  2007 - Kanakapura Emba Kānakāna Haḷḷiya Charitre
  2009 - Kannaḍa abhijāta sāhitya : adhyayanada avakāśagaḷu, ahvānagaḷu
caption: "Mulukanadu Brahmanaru" by T. V. Venkatachala Sastry
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