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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1901|01|08}}
| birth_place = Thenpattinam, [[Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)|Chengelput district]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1980|08|27|1901|01|08}}
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| othername = Te Po Meenkshisunadaranar
| occupation = Writer<br>Academic
| yearsactive = 1923–1980
| known for = Tamil and English literature
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| children = Dr. Neelayadakshi
| parents = S. Ponnusami Gramani
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| awards = [[Padma Bhushan]]<br>TN Sahitya Akademi Award
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'''Thenpattinam Ponnuswamy Meenakshisundaram''' (1901–1980), popularly known as '''Te Po Meenkshisunadaranar''', was an Indian scholar, writer of [[Tamil literature|Tamil]] and [[English literature]]<ref name="Collected works of Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaram">{{cite web | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10052841?q&versionId=11679162 | title=Collected works of Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaram | publisher=National Library of Australia | date=2016 | access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> and the founder vice chancellor of [[Madurai Kamaraj University]].<ref name="History of the College">{{cite web | url=http://www.kamarajcollege.ac.in/college_history.php | title=History of the College | publisher=Kamaraj College | date=2016 | access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref>

==Life==
Born on 8 January 1901 at Thenpattinam, in the erstwhile [[Chingleput District (Madras Presidency)|Chengelput district]] of the south Indian state of [[Tamil Nadu]] to S. Ponnusami Gramani, Meenakshisundaram did his college studies at [[Pachaiyappa's College]] from where he secured his BA (1920), BL (1922), MA in History (1923) and a Diploma in Economics.<ref name="Life History">{{cite web | url=http://tamilelibrary.org/teli/tpmeena.html | title=Life History | publisher=Tamil Electronic Library | date=2016 | access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> After starting his career in 1923 as a lawyer and serving the Madras Corporation Council in 1924, he shifted his career as a professor of Tamil and served [[Annamalai University]] from 1954 to 1958 and the [[Presidency College, Chennai]] till 1961. He was serving as the director of the Center for Advanced Study in Dravidian Linguistics of Annamalai University when he was appointed as the founder vice chancellor of Madurai Kamaraj University<ref name="From merchant to Tirukkural scholar">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/from-merchant-to-tirukkural-scholar/article7775746.ece | title=From merchant to Tirukkural scholar | newspaper=The Hindu | date=18 October 2015 | access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref> in 1966, a post he held till 1971.<ref name="Life History" />

Meenakshisundaram published several works in Tamil and English.<ref name="Spuler1952">{{cite book|author=Bertold Spuler|title=Handbook of Oriental Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kx4uqyts2t4C&pg=PA134|year=1952|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-04190-7|pages=134–}}</ref><ref name="Zvelebil1992">{{cite book|author=Kamil Zvelebil|title=Companion Studies to the History of Tamil Literature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qAPtq49DZfoC&pg=PA102|year=1992|publisher=BRILL|isbn=90-04-09365-6|pages=102–}}</ref><ref name="Blackburn2006">{{cite book|author=Stuart H. Blackburn|title=Print, Folklore, and Nationalism in Colonial South India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y-BxrNKdwPMC&pg=PA228|year=2006|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-7824-149-4|pages=228–}}</ref> He is best known for his English renderings of the [[Tirukkural]] published in 1919, in which he republished the work of his mentor [[K. Vadivelu Chettiar|Vadivelu Chettiar]], appending it with his own English renderings.<ref name="From merchant to Tirukkural scholar"/> His notable works include ''Philosophy of Tiruvalluvar'',<ref name="Philosophy of Tiruvalluvar">{{cite book | url=https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Tiruvalluvar-Madurai-University-publication/dp/B0000D5M8P?ie=UTF8&qid=1469038042&ref_=la_B00IY1Z60Q_1_1&s=books&sr=1-1 | title=Philosophy of Tiruvalluvar | publisher=Madurai University | author=T. P Meenakshisundaram | year=1969 | pages=1969 | asin=B0000D5M8P}}</ref> ''A history of Tamil Language'',<ref name="A history of Tamil Language">{{cite book | title=A history of Tamil Language | publisher=Deccan College, Post-graduate and Research Institute | author=T. P Meenakshisundaram | year=1965 | pages=236 | oclc=5228059}}</ref> ''A history of Tamil Literature'',<ref name="A history of Tamil Literature">{{cite book | title=A history of Tamil Literature | publisher=Annamalai University | author=T. P Meenakshisundaram | year=1965 | pages=211 | oclc=4825530}}</ref> and ''Aesthetics of the Tamils''.<ref name="Aesthetics of the Tamils">{{cite book | title=Aesthetics of the Tamils | publisher=University of Madras | author=T. P Meenakshisundaram | year=1977 | pages=23 | oclc=8280976}}</ref> He was a recipient of several honors such as the Tamil Nadu Sahitya Akademi Award (1975), and honorary doctorates from Madurai Kamaraj University (1967), [[University of Colombo]] (1973) and [[Annamalai University]] (1976). The Government of India awarded him the third highest civilian honour of the [[Padma Bhushan]], in 1977, for his contributions to literature and education.<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2016 | access-date=3 January 2016}}</ref> He died on 27 August 1980, at the age of 79. Madurai Kamaraj University has since instituted an endowment prize, ''Dr. T. P. Meenakshisundaram Endowment Prize'', in his honor.<ref name="Curriculum Vitae">{{cite web | url=http://chem.iitm.ac.in/faculty/anbarasan/profanbu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/PACV.pdf | title=Curriculum Vitae | publisher=Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai | date=2016 | access-date=20 July 2016}}</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Madurai Kamaraj University]]
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== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{cite web | url=http://tamilnation.co/conferences/cnfMA66/meenakshisundaram.htm | title=Tiruppavai, Tiruvempavai in South East Asia | publisher=Tamil Nation | work=Address at the First International Tamil Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | date=April 1966 | access-date=20 July 2016 | author=T. P. Meenakshisundaram}}
* {{cite web | url=http://pages.intnet.mu/ramsurat/Temoignages/English/Madevaki.html | title=The One beyond the reach of thought | publisher=Ram Surat | work=Introduction to "Bhagwan Yogi Ramsuratkumar Paamaalai" | date=2016 | access-date=20 July 2016| author=T. P. Meenakshisundaram}}

== Further reading ==
* {{cite book|author=Ā. Irā Vēṅkaṭācalapati|title=In Those Days There was No Coffee: Writings in Cultural History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tk-KZmcUEvAC&pg=PA153|year=2006|publisher=Yoda Press|isbn=978-81-902272-7-8|pages=153–}}
* {{cite book | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10052841?q&versionId=11679162 | title=Collected works of Prof. T. P. Meenakshisundaram | publisher=Sarvodaya Ilakkiya Pannai, Madurai | author=T. P. Meenakshisundaram | year=1977}}

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