Tamil Encyclopedia

The Tamil Development Academy announced its intent to produce this encyclopedia on the day of Indian Independence 15 August 1947.

The work started in the academy's Madras University Campus on 20 October 1947.

A second revised edition for this encyclopedia was planned with 12 volumes of 1000 pages each.

The entire Kalaikkalanjiam is available online at the Tamil Virtual Academy website.

Along with this, 10 volumes of Kuzhandhaigal Kalaikkalanjiam was also released under Creative Commons license.

Tamil Development Academy donating 20 volumes of encyclopedia in Tamil under Creative Commons license