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Dr. R.K.K. Rajarajan is on the Faculty of Tamil, India Languages & Fine Arts in the Gandhigram Rural University, Tamilnadu. He did his Master's in the Madurai Kamaraj University and M. Phil and Ph.D. with in the Tamil University of Thanjavur. He did his post-doctoral work in the Free Humbodlt Fellow during 1990-2001. He was on the teaching staff of the Eritean Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea for five years. At New Delhi, Hyderabad, Hong Kong, Bonn, Berlin, Rome and Indonesia. Oxford & IBH, Rome, London, Berlin, Naples, Reinbek, Copenhagen et al. His doctoral and M.Phil thesis have been published by Sharada Publishing House Delhi, He is a field-based scholar. His work is on Tamil in reliation to Indian art without neglecting Sanskriit.

Dr Jeyapriya Rajarajan hails from a family of distinguished scholars, Prof. Raju Kalidos and Prof. R.K.K. Rajarajan. Beginning her scholarship in historical studies, she took her M.Phil. under the guidance of the eminent historian, Prof. S. Manikcam of the Madurai Kamaraj University. She took her Ph.D. from the Tamil University. She has many articles to her credit in East and West, Rome, and several felicitation volumes to noted archaeologists and historians at home. She was in Eritrea for some time with her husband and son. Employed in Theni, the author's thirst for historical scholarship is immense. She has completed a book on "Sacred Sports of Siva" that deals with a neglected aspect of art history on Tamil Nadu, i.e., Tiruvilaiyatar Puranam in literature and art. Forthcoming, this work is sure to be a ground breaking research in art history. The author has to her credit several more articles forthcoming in international journals. A budding scholar, she deserves the commendations of scholars in the field.