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A Grammar of the High Dialect of the Tamil Language, Termed Shen-TamilTo Which is Added, an Introduction to Tamil Poetry\nAuthor(s): C. G. Beschi, B. G. Babington\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108055116, 978-1108055116\nSynopsis\nPublished in 1822, but completed in manuscript form almost 100 years earlier, this work was designed to accompany Beschi's earlier Grammar of Common Tamil. While the latter enabled the student to speak the language, this reissue offers a way into reading Tamil's classical literature with its complexity of thought and technique. One of the earliest and most distinguished pioneers in the field of Tamil studies, C. G. Beschi [tel] was a Jesuit missionary in Madura, as well as a translator and composer of Tamil poetry. Since this treatise was not previously formally printed, this translation by B. G. Babington [tel], from the original Latin, is based on a collation of .