DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION

A highlight of the activities is the Annual Conference of Dravidian Linguists Conference. It is held by invitation at various centers all over India. The history of its previous meetings is given below:

CONFERENCE	LOCATION	YEAR	PRESIDENT / LOCAL SECRETARIES
First	Thiruvananthapuram	1971	S.K Chatterji Puthusseri Ramachandran G. K. Panikkar
Second	Tirupati	1972	T. P. Meenakshisundaram G. N Reddy
Third	Dharwad	1973	G. J. Somayaji R. C. Hiremath J. S. Kulli
Fourth	Chennai	1974	Sooranad Kunjan Pillai N. Sanjivi
Fifth	Cochin	1975	M. M. Bhat Nalina Babu M. Leelavathy
Sixth	Waltair	1976	R. C. Hiremath T. Donappa
Seventh	Bangalore	1977	C. R. Sankaran M. Chidananda Murthy
Eighth	Madurai	1978	K. Mahadeva Sastry M. Shanmugam Pillai J. Neethivanan
Ninth	Calicut	1979	A. C. Sekar S. Velayudhan
Tenth & Decennial Celebrations	Delhi	1980	Bh. Krishnamurthy K. V. Subba Rao
Eleventh	Hyderabad	1981	G. S. Gai H. S. Ananthanarayana
Twelfth	Pondichery	1982	K. Kunjunni Raja M. Shanmugam Pillai
Thirteenth	Tanjavur	1983	G. N. Reddy K. Rangan
Fourteenth & International seminar On Dravidian Linguistics	Thiruvananthapuram	1986	M. Chidananda Murthy B. Gopinathan Nair G. K. Panikkar
Fifteenth	Anantapur	1987	T. Donappa T. Koteswara Rao K. Enoch S. Reghunandha Sarma
Sixteenth	Thiruvanthapuram	1988	R. N. Srivastava M. Rama
Seventeenth	Udupi	1989	H. S. Ananthanarayana U. P. Upadhyaya
Eighteenth	Kanyakumari	1990	E. Annamalai L. C. Thanu
Nineteenth	Thiruvananthapuram	1991	H. S Gill M. Rama
Twentieth	Thiruvananthapuram	1992	H. M Nayak Gloria Sundaramathy
Twenty – first	Kuppam	1993	M. Israel Gloria Sundaramathy
Twenty – second	Thiruvananthapuram	1994	P. S. Subrahmanyam Gloria Sundaramathy
Twenty – third	Thiruvananthapuram	1995	M. V. Sreedhar Gloria Sundaramathy
Twenty – fourth	Kuppam	1996	William Bright A. P. Andrewskutty
Twenty - fiftth	Chennai	1997	J. Gowda V. Syamala R. Ilay
Twenty - sixth	Hyderabad	1998	S.V Shanmugam N. Sivarammurthy B. Ramakrishna Reddy
Twenty - seventh	Thiruvananthapuram	1999	B.P Mahapatra K . Janardhanan Nair
Twenty - eighth	Idayankudi	2000	S. Guptan Nair E.J.R Daniel
Twenty-Ninth	Thiruvananthapuram	2002	N. Sivaramamurthy M. Rama
Thirtieth	Dharwad	2002	Subadhra Kumar Sen K. Anban
Thirty-First	Kanchipuram	2003	K. Meenakshi P. Kanthasamy

DLA celebrated its Silver Jubilee in 1997; the IJDL, in 1996. The ISDL Silver Jubilee was celebrated in AD 2002

The proceedings of the first three Conferences were published by ISDL. The more important learned papers, presented at the subsequent Conferences have been incorporated in the issues of IJDL

The 28th Annual DLA Conference was held from 22nd to 24th, June 2000 at Idayankudi, Tirunelveli District, where Bishop Caldwell lived and worked for 44 years, during which time, he wrote the classic work, "Comparative Grammar of Dravidian Languages", pioneering studies in this discipline. Participants could appreciate the hardships that he must have undergone, living in a small hot dry village, where even now, the facilities of luxurious urban living are not available. The people, though poor, could appreciate the cultural greatness of scholarship, and did all they could to make the Conference a success, and the delegates were given a warm welcome.

The 30h Conference was held at Dharwad, Karnataka, where Rev. Kittel was honored and the Kittel College was gifted with all publications of the DLA/ISDL