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Abstract
K.K.Pillay contributed much for the reconstruction of history of South India. Among them "The Early History of Nanchilnad", "Suchindrum Temple – A monograph", "Studies in the History of India with special reference to Tamil Nadu", deserve special mention.
As per Dr. K.K. Pillay's point of view the history of Nanchilnad has not been reconstructed in a systematic manner so far on the basis of the entire available data.1 Till now, it has received little more than a left handed treatment at the hands of writers of Travancore History. The reason for this circumstance was that early historians of Travancore viewed Nanchilnad as an integral part of that country. For example writers like Pachu Muthatu, Shangunny Menon, Nagam Aiyya and T.K. Velu Pillai had the tendency of not giving proper attention as well as an objective presentation with Nanjilnad. But significantly Nanchilnad has all the time constituted a distinctly separate unit, socially and culturally different from the rest of Travancore which had woefully ignored them. A systematic utilization and a proper interpretation of the Tamil sources, literary and epigraphic are essential in a scheme of true reconstruction of south Indian History. Nanchilnad has played an important role in the history of south India for almost all the leading dynasties of south India which were associated with Nanchilnad at one stage or another.2