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Sri Lankan Tamil academic

ProfessorPonnuthurai Balasundarampillai
பொ. பாலசுந்தரம்பிள்ளை
Alma materJaffna Hindu College
OccupationAcademic
TitleVice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna
TermFebruary 1997 – April 2003
PredecessorK. Kunaratnam
SuccessorS. Mohanadas

Professor Ponnuthurai Balasundarampillai (Tamil: பொன்னுத்துரை பாலசுந்தரம்பிள்ளை) is a Sri Lankan Tamil academic and former vice-chancellor of the University of Jaffna.

Early life and family

Balasundarampillaih was educated at the Jaffna Hindu College.

Career

Balasundarampillai was a professor of geography at the University of Jaffna in the 1980s. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the university from March 1991 to March 1997. He then served as vice-chancellor of the university between February 1997 and April 2003.

References

  1. Poolokasingham, C. S. (5 October 2008). "The Spirit of Pluralistic Learning in Jaffna". The Island (Sri Lanka).
  2. Hoole, Rajan (1190). "Appendix IV: A statement issued by 50 university teachers during the run-up to the Provincial Council elections of November 1988". Broken Palmyra. University Teachers for Human Rights.
  3. "Former Deans". University of Jaffna. Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
  4. "Establishment of the Jaffna Campus of the University of Sri Lanka". University of Jaffna. Archived from the original on 21 July 2012.


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