the books discussing the kumari kandam theory were first included in the college curriculum of the present-day tamil nadu in 1908. suryanarayana sastri's book was prescribed for use in madras university's master's degree courses in 1908-09. over the next few decades, other such works were also included in the curriculum of madras university and annamalai university. these include purnalingam pillai's "a primer of tamil literature" (1904) and "tamil literature" (1929), kandiah pillai's "tamilakam" (1934), and srinivasa pillai's "tamil varalaru" (1927). in a 1940 tamil language textbook for ninth-grade students, t. v. kalyanasundaram wrote that lemuria of the european scholars was kumarinatu of the tamil literature.