• P. Basith Assarani

Noboru Karashima was a Japanese historian, writer and Professor Emeritus in University of Tokyo, Japan.He was an authority on the life and literature during Cholas regions in Tamil Nadu. He used scientific methodology to study Cholas villages. His researches threw light on the tax system that prevailed during the Cholas period and also limelight some social issues prevailed in that period.His ground-breaking essay that he published almost 55 years ago on land control in the two Cauvery delta provinces of Allur and Isanamangalam villages based on the study of Chola inscriptions. He explored deeper into understanding land relations and social relationship in Medieval Tamil Nadu. His seminal contribution to South Indian history was his use of statistical technique to distil information from a mass of inscriptions, thereby lending his interpretations and conclusions a more sound reliable base. Prof Noburo Karashima was died at the age of 82 in the year 2015 . He was an authority on life and literature of Chola’s era in Tamil Nadu, and it was a great loss for Tamil Literature and Tamil Historiography. A steadfast friend and admirer of Tamil Nadu, he has exercised a strong intellectual influence on a generation of Tamil Scholars all over the world.

Tamilian Historian, Cholas, Historiography

"Nobrou Karashima: An Inspired Tamilian Historiographer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.696-698, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811393.pdf

"Nobrou Karashima: An Inspired Tamilian Historiographer", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp696-698, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811393.pdf