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 All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL)
 It is held by invitation at various centres all over India in collaboration with various Departments of the Universities all over India. The history of its previous Conferences is given below:

CONFERENCE

LOCATION

YEAR 

PRESIDENT

LOCAL SECRETARIES

First

Thiruvananthapuram

1971

Suniti Kumar 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

Punjabi University, Patiala

2011

T. Murugaretnam

N.Rajendran

Fortieth

Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

2012

M. Leelavathy

Panchanan Mohanthy

Forty-First

University of Madras, Chennai

2013

Umamaheswar Rao

M. Sampath Kumar

Forty-Second

Dravidian University, Kuppam

2014

U P. Upadhyaya

G Ambedkar

Forty-Third

Annamalai University, Chidambaram

2015

Pabitra Sarkar

S. Raja

Forty-Fourth

Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad

2016

K. RANGAN

G. UMAMAHESWARA RAO
NADUVATTOM GOPALAKRISHNAN

Forty-Fifth

University of Delhi

2017

K. RETNAMMA

R.C. SHARMA

Forty-Sixth

Jadavpur University, Kolkata

2018

K. Viswanatham

Samir Karmakar
Atanu Saha

Forty-Seventh

Central University of Karnataka, Kalaburagi

2019

H M. Maheshwaraiah

C Ramasamy
Vikram Visaji

Forty-Eighth

Bharathiar University,Coimbatore

Feb 2022

R.C. Sharma

V.M. Subramanian

Forty-Nineth

Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi

June 2022

R.C. Sharma

Abhinav Kumar Mishra 

Fiftieth

University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram

June 2023

K. Nachimuthu

S. Kunjamma

                                               

Forthcoming  Conference:-


Fifty-First

Tamil University, Tanjavur

June 2024

N.P. Unni

S Kavitha

 

The All-India Conference of Dravidian Linguists (AICDL) celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 2023 through the 50th AICDL held at Thiruvananthapuram at the Department of Linguistics, University of Kerala from 21st to 23rd June 2023.   (Dravidian Linguistic Association of India (DLA) was established in 1971 and hence its Golden Jubilee was in 2021).

 

 

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