ACKNOWLEDGEMENTI express my sincere gratitude to Dr. A.K. Srivastava, Professor-cum-Deputy Director and Director-In-charge, Central Institute of Indian Languages for his inspiring guidance and timely suggestions from the very beginning of this work. His encouragement was of immense help in bringing this work to this shape.
I sincerely express my thanks to Dr. E. Annamalai, Professor-cum-Deputy Director for extending his academic support and constant encouragement in this work.
I am greatly indebted to Dr. M.S. Thirumalai, Professor-cum-Deputy Director for his keen interest I this work and timely help. His sincere efforts in making this volume published needs special mention.
I extend my sincere thanks to Mr. R. Elangaiyan, my colleague at the Institute and Dr. P. Ratnasabapathy, Professor of Tamil, Government College of education, Madras, who have spared their valuable time and suggested to enrich the content of several entries.
Dr. O. N. Koul, Professor, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Dr. M.R. Ranganatha and Dr. V. Gnanasundaram, Reader-cum-Research Officers, CIIL, suggested to modify the title of this volume. I am most thankful to them.
It is not out of place to express my gratitude to Prof. V. Natarajan, Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi, whose course on 'Evaluation Methodology and Examinations' has helped me a lot to equip myself in this field. Mr. S. Ganesh Baskar, Junior Research Fellow, Madurai Kamaraj University, helped me in alphabetizing the entries. I am thankful to him.
I am also thankful to my colleagues - academic, administrative and library staff, who have helped me directly or indirectly.
Mr. V. Gopal, Stenographer (Technical), who set the types and executed the job neatly on Electronic Machine needs special mention.
I am grateful to Mr. S.B. Biswas, Manager, and my other colleagues at the CIIL Press for the neat printing of this volume.
I shall be failing in my duty, if I do not express my sincere gratitude to Dr. D.P. Pattanayak, Director (Retd.), CIIL, for his constant encouragement and guidance.
My wife, Umadevi has helped me in alphabetizing final entries besides making the statistical computations ready. I would not have completed this volume without her help and interest.
Pon Subbiah