The Dravidian India and Eponymous Bharata- An Indo-Sociological Dimension (An Old and Rare Book)

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That the nomenclature of the work along with its sub-title was self- explanatory and required little elucidation notwithstanding, the author owed it his duty and obligation to the learned readers to acquaint them with the real import and implication thereof.

However, before explaining the real significance of the term 'eponymous', it needed to state that the lengthy Shavian 'Introduction', preferred by the author for giving a brief account of the various issues, dwelt upon in this work, on sociological grounds, was but a prelude to it, and treatment of various issues under discussion was done by the author later in the body of the volume, and it was with the intention of giving the learned readers a first-hand knowledge of those issues only, that the author had to make the necessary but a short account thereof without elaboration in the introduction [prelude] to the work.

The work which could be likened to a stream flowing uninterruptedly from its source in the mountain, winding its course in the mid-way to its culmination in the sea, had been divided, as in a drama, into two parts, the first of which, comprising the initial six chapters [I-VI], called the 'Prologue', dealt essentially with the origin and other relevant issues of Bharata dynasty [the Indus civilization and others] while the latter part, constituting the six chapters [VII-XII], called the 'Epilogue' brought about the 'denouncement' of the dramatic episode of the dynastic stream by the determination of the identity of its founder, Bharata, as a South Indian Tamil, from sociological point of view.

It was pertinent to point out here that the Nobel-laureate author George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) had always preferred quite unusually & massive preface to his dramas [cf. Man and Superman, Androcles and the Lion, Back to Methusaleh etc.] and that according to him the preface was in no way less important than the dialogues of the dramas to the connoisseurs and it was equally true to the 'Introduction' to the present work by the author.