Introduction
Abstract
Āṟumuka Nāvalar is a major figure in the nineteenth-century socioreligious and literary landscape of Sri Lankan Jaffna and Tamil Nadu. He followed all the strategies possible to propagate Tamil Saivism 1 , as the missionaries did for Christianity. It was a great honour for him to redefine and modernize Tamil Saivism in order to address contemporary needs; he went to the extent of touching the borderline of the passionate and the obsessive, as he felt it was his distinctive calling.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Indian and Buddhist Studies
Cultural and Mythological Studies
South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Routledge eBooks
- Pages
- 1–5
- Publication date
- 3 February 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter