He was a visiting professor of Tamil at the University of Chicago (1961вЂ“62), of linguistics at the University of Illinois at UrbanaвЂ“Champaign (1967), of Malayalam and Tamil at the Michigan State University (1968), of Doctor R. He served as the President of International Association for Tamil Research from 1983 to 1990. He was Professor of Linguistics from 1977, was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1986 to 1989, and retired as a Vice Principal in 1993. ДЄsher joined the Department of General Linguistics at The University of Edinburgh in 1965. He opted for SOAS and spent four years at the School's Department of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) under the Department of Linguistics doing linguistic theoretical research in Tamil language. CareerДЄfter Asher received his Ph.D., he was offered two lectureships, at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London and at the Renaissance French of the University College of North Staffordshire. in 1955 from the University College London.

He did doctoral research on 16th-century French literature and received Ph.D. Asher completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1950 and was certified in the phonetics French in 1951 from the University College London. He won a scholarship to study at the King Edward VI Grammar School at Retford, Nottinghamshire. Asher was born in Gringley-on-the-Hill, Nottinghamshire, England on 23 July 1926 to Ernest and Doris (Hurst) Asher. He is a fellow of Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1964), a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1991), and an honorary fellow of the Sahitya Akademi. Asher (born 23 July 1926) is a British linguist and educator specialised in Dravidian languages.

Sahitya Akademi Honorary fellowship (2007)

( ) 23 July 1926 (age 95) Gringley-on-the-Hill, England

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