Abstract:Velcheru Narayana Rao, Text and Tradition in South India, Ranikhet: Permanent Black, 2016, 490 pp; and David Shulman, Tamil: A Biography, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016, 416 pp.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.