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The references below include articles in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Encarta Encyclopedia, and books by A. K. Ramanujan, Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Sanford B. Seaver, Kamil Zvelebil, George L. Hart, David Crystal, and the Sahitya Akademi. Please notice that many of the references predate the year are 2004, when the Government of India got into the act.

Encyclopedia Britannica (1984)
Article by A. K. Ramanujan written in 1984

Encyclopedia Encarta
Article on "Indian Literature" written by: Indira Viswanathan Peterson, B.A., A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Asian Studies, Mount Holyoke College. Author of Poems to Siva: The Hymns of the Tamil Saints. Editor of Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces—Indian Literature, Expanded 6th Edition .

Dravidian Languages by Sanford B. Seaver (1998)
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Dravidian Languages by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti (2003)
From Krishnamurti, Bhadriraju (2003) Dravidian Languages, Cambridge University Press, 2003. (See page 22):

Smile of Murugan by Kamil Zvelebil (1997)
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Poems of Love and War by A. K. Ramanujan (1985)
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George L. Hart and Henry Heifetz: The Purananuru (2002)
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George L. Hart, Tamil as a classical language (2000)
From: Tamil as a classical language by George L. Hart, Professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California-Berkeley.

Sahitya Akademi (2005), A History of Indian Literature, 500-1399
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Sahitya Akademi (1992), Modern Indian Literature, an Anthology
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India: A Reference Encyclopaedia (2001)
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