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Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University ( ), also called Malayalam University, is a university in Kerala State in India established by the government of Kerala in 2012. The university was inaugurated by Oommen Chandy, Chief Minister of Kerala, on 1 November 2012 in a function held in the premises of Thunchanparamba, the home of Thunchath Ezhuthachan near Tirur in Malappuram, Kerala. K Jayakumar, a civil servant of the Indian Administrative Service cadre, who retired as the Chief Secretary of Kerala on 31 October 2012 has been appointed as the first Vice-Chancellor of the Malayalam University. It was Jayakumar who prepared the Project Report of the University. The university is named after Thunchath Ramanujan Ezhuthachan a sixteenth-century CE Malayalam litterateur whose writings helped develop Malayalam as a language with a script of 51 letters, vocabulary and literature. Thunchath Ezhuthachan often described as the "The Father of Malayalam language" was born at Trikkantiyur in Thunchan Parambu in Tirur, in the state of Kerala. At the time of its inauguration Malayalam University had no infrastructure of its own in the form land and buildings. According to the newly appointed Vice-Chancellor the University offices will start functioning in temporary structures erected in the premises of Thunchan Memorial Govt College, Tirur. . ==Objectives== According to the website of the university the objectives of the university are as follows:〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Objectives )〕 * To implement programmes concerning the mother tongue and to encourage studies among malayalies. * Imparting education at the post graduate level on Malayalam literature, science, humanities, social science and technology through Malayalam Medium, Malayalam language and linguistics, comparative literature, Malayalam criticism, antique, ancient record, evolution of South Indian language scripts, history of scripts, tribal language study, regional language study, the study in the categories of Poem, Short Story, Novel, Study of Kerala Renaissance History, Science, Science and Technology and Social Sciences, Epigraphy, Archaeology and Museology, and Translation into and from Malayalam; * Imparting education on the Kerala’s culture particularly in the areas of folklore and Written and unwritten cultural heritage, performing arts, traditional architecture, folk tales, classical and contemporary music, theatre, art of engraving, study of folklore and martial arts. * To offer courses of study on Kerala’s heritage, traditional knowledge systems, cultural anthropology and media studies with modern technical knowledge; * To undertake research programmes on Kerala’s culture, heritage, language and literature, for making Malayalam script more adaptable to computer technology and to equip Malayalam to express advanced knowledge in science and technology; * To publish in Malayalam the literary composition regarding the culture, heritage and language of Kerala. * Taking up projects for collection, documentation, preservation and inventorisation of cultural expressions of Kerala including valuable manuscripts using modern technology 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thunchath Ezhuthachan Malayalam University」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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