T. V. Venkatachala Sastry Personal collection

The collection consists of early Kannada books in various subjects such as biography, literature, fiction, folk literature, astrology. T. V. Venkatachala Sastry is an acclaimed Kannada writer, grammatician, critic, editor and lexicographer. He has authored more than 100 books, translations and has edited collections of essays, biographical sketches and felicitation volumes. T. V. Venkatachala Sastry was a Kannada professor at the University of Mysore and additionally held the post of Director at "Kannada Adhyayana Samsthe" before retiring in 1994. 50 Printed Books.