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	Prof. '''M. J. Rabi Singh''' is a scholar in Tamil and comparative literature. Born in 1939 in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu, India, he currently resides in Chennai, India.		Prof. '''M. J. Rabi Singh''' is a scholar in Tamil and comparative literature. Born in 1939 in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu, India, he currently resides in Chennai, India.

	==Career ~~and accomplishments~~==		==Career==
	He initially started his academic career as a tutor in [[Voorhees College\|Voorhees college]], Vellore. He then served as assistant professor at Government Arts College and then at [[Presidency College, Chennai\|Presidency college]], Chennai. He went on to become a professor in [[Tamil language\|Tamil]]. As a professor and head of department of Tamil, he has worked at Sri Pushpam College in Poondi, M.R. Government Arts college in Mannargudi and at [[Banaras Hindu University\|Benares Hindu University]] at Varnasi. After retirement he served as visiting Professor, guest faculty at the [[University of Madras]]. Between 2000 and 2007, he worked as a Senior consultant at the newly created ~~[http://www.tamilvu.org~~ Tamil Virtual University].<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103023925/http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=3 November 2006\|title=Tamil library: treasure trove of information\|date=6 October 2006\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|publisher=The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Salem News\|accessdate=24 October 2010}}</ref> In this position, he was hugely responsible for the start up and creation of online content for Tamil. He brought in lesson writers besides himself from far and wide to ensure the quality of the academic content available for the online courses offered by the university. He has also filled in as Director in charge for short period and ensured successful running of the university. He has also served as project director for [[Indian Council for Social Sciences Research]] [ICSSR].		He initially started his academic career as a tutor in [[Voorhees College\|Voorhees college]], Vellore. He then served as assistant professor at Government Arts College and then at [[Presidency College, Chennai\|Presidency college]], Chennai. He went on to become a professor in [[Tamil language\|Tamil]]. As a professor and head of department of Tamil, he has worked at Sri Pushpam College in Poondi, M.R. Government Arts college in Mannargudi and at [[Banaras Hindu University\|Benares Hindu University]] at Varnasi. After retirement he served as visiting Professor, guest faculty at the [[University of Madras]].

			Between 2000 and 2007, he worked as a Senior consultant at the newly created Tamil Virtual University.<ref>{{cite news\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103023925/http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=3 November 2006\|title=Tamil library: treasure trove of information\|date=6 October 2006\|work=[[The Hindu]]\|publisher=The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Salem News\|accessdate=24 October 2010}}</ref> In this position, he was hugely responsible for the start up and creation of online content for Tamil. He brought in lesson writers besides himself from far and wide to ensure the quality of the academic content available for the online courses offered by the university.

			He has also filled in as Director in charge for short period and ensured successful running of the university. He has also served as project director for [[Indian Council for Social Sciences Research]] [ICSSR].

	==Research==		==Research==

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Prof. '''M. J. Rabi Singh''' is a scholar in Tamil and comparative literature. Born in 1939 in Nagercoil in Tamil Nadu, India, he currently resides in Chennai, India.

==Career and accomplishments==
He initially started his academic career as a tutor in [[Voorhees College|Voorhees college]], Vellore. He then served as assistant professor at Government Arts College and then at [[Presidency College, Chennai|Presidency college]], Chennai. He went on to become a professor in [[Tamil language|Tamil]]. As a professor and head of department of Tamil, he has worked at Sri Pushpam College in Poondi, M.R. Government Arts college in Mannargudi and at [[Banaras Hindu University|Benares Hindu University]] at Varnasi. After retirement he served as visiting Professor, guest faculty at the [[University of Madras]]. Between 2000 and 2007, he worked as a Senior consultant at the newly created [http://www.tamilvu.org Tamil Virtual University].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061103023925/http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/06/stories/2006100603320300.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 November 2006|title=Tamil library: treasure trove of information|date=6 October 2006|work=[[The Hindu]]|publisher=The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Salem News|accessdate=24 October 2010}}</ref> In this position, he was hugely responsible for the start up and creation of online content for Tamil. He brought in lesson writers besides himself from far and wide to ensure the quality of the academic content available for the online courses offered by the university. He has also filled in as Director in charge for short period and ensured successful running of the university. He has also served as project director for [[Indian Council for Social Sciences Research]] [ICSSR].

==Research==
His primary research interests lie in Comparative Literature, Literature and Reflections of Society, Classical Heroic Poetry, the Narrative Method in Historical Enquiry and Computer-Assisted Education.

==Publications==
He has published 13 books, including two books edited. One of them, ''Sengol Vènthar'', was prescribed as a textbook for undergraduate courses in the Universities of Madras, Madurai-Kāmarāj, Annāmalai and Mysore. He has also published 32 research articles in English and Tamil.

==Education==
He did his B.Sc. in mathematics at the university of Madras(1961). His love for Tamil made him switch to doing a M.A. in Tamil language and literature. He followed this up with a diploma in higher education and an M.Phil. in stylistics study. He completed his Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of Madras in 1980. His doctoral thesis was ''a comparative study on social novels in Tamil and Malayalam''.

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