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by – John Filliozat.- Institut de france , Paris.

I met Rev. Fr. Thani Nayagam for the first time in 1955 at Colombo. I was already aware of his repute as a man and as a scholar. I was struck at first by his humanistic or rather universal culture. Differing from both the European and Asian scholars ordinarily specialized in their regional culture only, he was fully acquainted with Latin. French, Italian, English languages and their countries, as well as with Tamil and with his Motherland.
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Xavier Thani Nayagam; His Malaysian Years (1961 -1970 )
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by – S. Arasaratnam, University of New England, N.S.W.

Father, as we all loved to call him was appointed to the Foundation Chair in Indian studies in the University of Malaya in 1961. When he took up this Chair and the direction of the growth and development of Indian Studies in that University. The position relating to the academic study of India, its civilization, language and literature, was far from satisfactory. The Department of Indian studies had just been moved from Singapore and though it had produced some very bright and able graduates, it lacked an overall and balanced growth as between the various approaches that have to be integrated in an understanding of that great civilization. This was Father’s task and the sum total of his achievement.
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