INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS

DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTIC ASSOCIATION OF INDIA

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS

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A highlight of the activities is the Annual Conference of Dravidian Linguists. It is held by invitation at various centres all over India. The history of its previous meetings is given below:
 

CONFERENCE

LOCATION

YEAR 

PRESIDENT / LOCAL SECRETARIES

First

Thiruvananthapuram

1971

S.K Chatterji
Puthusseri Ramachandran
G. K. Panikkar

Second 

Tirupati  

1972  

T. P. Meenakshisundaram
G. N Reddy

Third 

Dharwad

1973

G. J. Somayaji
R. C. Hiremath
J. S. Kulli

Fourth 

Chennai 

1974 

Sooranad Kunjan Pillai 
N. Sanjivi

Fifth 

Cochin

1975 

M. M. Bhat
Nalina Babu
M. Leelavathy

Sixth 

Waltair

1976    

R. C. Hiremath
T. Donappa

Seventh

Bangalore

1977

C. R. Sankaran
M. Chidananda Murthy

Eighth  

Madurai 

1978 

K. Mahadeva Sastry
M. Shanmugam Pillai 
J. Neethivanan

Ninth   

Calicut

1979

A. C. Sekar
S. Velayudhan

Tenth & Decennial
Celebrations

Delhi   

1980

Bh. Krishnamurti
K. V. Subba Rao

Eleventh     

Hyderabad 

1981

G. S. Gai
H. S. Ananthanarayana

Twelfth

Pondichery

1982 

K. Kunjunni Raja
M. Shanmugam Pillai

Thirteenth 

Tanjavur

1983

G. N. Reddy
K. Rangan

Fourteenth &   1st International seminar On Dravidian  Linguistics

Thiruvananthapuram  

1986   

M. Chidananda Murthy
B. Gopinathan Nair
G. K. Panikkar

Fifteenth

 Anantapur 

1987 

T. Donappa
T. Koteswara Rao
K. Enoch
S. Reghunandha Sarma

Sixteenth

Thiruvanathapuram

1988 

R. N. Srivastava
M. Rama

Seventeenth

Udupi 

1989

H. S. Ananthanarayana 
U. P. Upadhyaya

Eighteenth  

Kanyakumari

1990 

E. Annamalai 
L. C. Thanu

Nineteenth  

Thiruvananthapuram

1991

H. S. Gill
M. Rama

Twentieth

Thiruvananthapuram 

1992

H. M Nayak
Gloria Sundaramathy

Twenty–first

Kuppam 

1993 

M. Israel
Gloria Sundaramathy

Twenty–second  

Thiruvananthapuram

1994

P. S. Subrahmanyam
Gloria Sundaramathy

Twenty–third

Thiruvananthapuram

1995

 M. V. Sreedhar
Gloria Sundaramathy

Twenty–fourth

Kuppam 

1996

William Bright
A. P. Andrewskutty

Twenty-fiftth

Chennai

1997

J. Gowda
V. Syamala 
R. Ilay 

Twenty-sixth 

Hyderabad

1998

S.V Shanmugam
N. Sivarammurthy
B. Ramakrishna Reddy  

Twenty-seventh

Thiruvananthapuram

1999

B.P. Mahapatra 
K. Janardhanan Nair

Twenty-eighth

Idayankudi

2000

S. Guptan Nair
E.J.R Daniel

Twenty-Ninth 

Thiruvananthapuram

2002

N. Sivaramamurthy
M. Rama

Thirtieth

Dharwad

2002

Subadhra Kumar Sen
K. Anban

Thirty-First

Kanchipuram

2003

K. Meenakshi
P. Kanthasamy

Thirty-Second Warrangal 2004 H.S Anathanarayana

Kuttalam Pillai
Thirty-Third Thiruvananthapuram 2005 J.Neethivanan

Kuttalam Pillai
Thirty-Fourth Thiruvananthapuram 2006 Puthusseri Ramachandran

Kuttalam Pillai
Thirty-Fifth Mysore 2007 Panchanan Mohanty

Kuttalam Pillai
Thirty-Sixth Erode 2008 A.G. Menon

N.Rajasekharan Nair
Thirty-Seventh Thiruvananthapuram 2009 B.Ramakrishna Reddy

Kuttalam Pillai
Thirty-Eighth Thiruvananthapuram 2010 B.B. Rajapurohit

N.Rajendran
Thirty-Ninth Patiala 2011 T.Murugaretnam

N.Rajendran
Fortieth Hyderabad 2012 M. Leelavathy

Panchanan Mohanthy
Forty-First Chennai 2013 Umamaheswar Rao

M. Sampath Kumar
Forty-Second Kuppam 2014 U P. Upadhyaya

G Ambedkar
Forty-Third Chidambaram 2015 Pabitra Sarkar

S. Raja
Forty-Fourth Hyderabad 2016 K. RANGAN

G. UMAMAHESWARA RAO
NADUVATTOM GOPALAKRISHNAN
Forty-Fifth Delhi 2017 K. RETNAMMA

R.C. SHARMA
Forty-Sixth Kolkata 2018 K. Viswanatham

Samir Karmakar
Atanu Saha
Forty-Seventh Kalaburagi 2019 H M. Maheshwaraiah

C Ramasamy
Vikram Visaji
Forty-Eighth Thiruvananthapuram 2021 G.K. Panikkar (Founder-Member, DLA)

Naduvattom Gopalakrishnan
(Organizing Secretary)

                                               
DLA celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1997; the IJDL, in 1996. The ISDL Silver Jubilee was celebrated in AD 2002 

The proceedings of the first three Conferences were published by ISDL. The more important learned papers, presented at the subsequent Conferences have been incorporated in the issues of IJDL

The 28th Annual DLA Conference was held from 22nd to 24th, June 2000 at Idayankudi, Tirunelveli District, where Bishop Caldwell lived and worked for 44 years, during which time, he wrote the classic work, "Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages", pioneering studies in this discipline. Participants could appreciate the hardships that he must have undergone, living in a small hot dry village, where even now, the facilities of luxurious urban living are not available. The people, though poor, could appreciate the cultural greatness of scholarship, and did all they could to make the Conference a success, and the delegates were given a warm welcome. 

The 30th  Conference was held at Dharwad, Karnataka, where Rev. Kittel was honoured and the Kittel College was gifted with all publications of the DLA/ISDL

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