Ka. Appadurai
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Ka. Appadurai (June 24, 1907 - May 26, 1989) was a Tamil scholar. Tamil historian and translator. He was called as a polyglot. He was trained in five languages including Tamil, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Hindi and English.
Birth, Education
Ka. Appadurai was born on June 24, 1907, in the village of Aralvaimozhi in the Kumari district to Kasinatha Pillai and Muthulakshmi Ammal. After completing his primary education in Aralvaimozhi, he completed his schooling at Nagercoil and obtained his MA in English from Maharaja College, Thiruvananthapuram in 1927. He later obtained his MA in Tamil from University of Travancore. He graduated with B.T. degree from teacher training college, Saidapet. He holds a master’s degree in english literature. He cleared the ‘Visarath’ exam on Hindi language. Around the same period he also learned to read and write in Sanskrit.
