A. Veluppillai

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According to Wikipedia, Alvappillai Veluppillai was a Sri Lankan Tamil academic, historian and author. Early life and family Veluppillai was born on 21 November 1936 in Puloly in northern Ceylon. He was the son of Veluppillai Alvappillai. He was educated at Puttalai Tamil School , Puloly Boys' English School and Hartley College . After school he joined the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya in 1955, graduating in 1959 with a first class BA honours degree. He was a student of K. Kanapathypillai. He received a PhD degree from the university in 1962 after producing a thesis titled A Study of the Language of Tamil Inscriptions of Catavarman Cuntarapantiyan and Maravarman Kulacekaran . He entered the University of Oxford in 1962 as student of Thomas Burrow, receiving a D.Phil degree in 1964 for his thesis A Study of the Language of Tamil Inscriptions of the period 800 to 920 AD. On 31 May 1996 Veluppillai received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at Uppsala University, Sweden

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A. Veluppillai is affiliated with the following schools:

• Uppsala University
• University of Oxford
• University of Kerala
• University of Jaffna
• University of Edinburgh
• University of Virginia
• Arizona State University