2020 Update:
You can download the school textbooks for CBSE and Tamil Nadu State board (தமிழக அரசு மற்றும் இந்திய அரசின் பாடத்திட்டப் புத்தகங்கள்) for free from the below links to their respective sites.
தமிழக அரசின் பாடத்திட்டப் புத்தகங்கள்
The Original Post from 2010 Below:
Tamil Nadu Government runs “Tamil Nadu Text Book Corporation” under its School Education Department for publishing Textbooks (பாடப் புத்தகங்கள்) under heavily subsidized prices. The textbooks are written by experienced teachers and are the official curriculum for school students in the state studying under the State Board Education system. Their Tamil Textbooks are also used as curriculum for other board students (like CBSE) as well.
![Std 2 Tamil Textbook story[5]](https://venkatarangan.com/content/binary/WindowsLiveWriter/Tam_85EB/Std%202%20Tamil%20Textbook%20story%5B5%5D_1.jpg "Std 2 Tamil Textbook story[5]")
This year I had to buy Tamil Textbook for STD II for my son studying in P.S.B.B.S.S.School and after asking in few book shops got it in a shop [ in T.Nagar. With this background, when I happened to meet our fellow INFITT member Mr.Iniya Nehru, Director in NIC (NIC handles many of the IT Services and Websites for Govt. of India & Govt. of Tamil Nadu) I was mentioning to him that Textbooks published by Government can be made available online as a E-Books (say PDF files) for convenience. It will serve as a valuable reference for those living outside Tamil Nadu and studying Tamil. Mr.Nehru replied it is already there, I assumed it will be a shopping basket facility for ordering online or as PDF for electronic purchase. I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Textbook Corporation has made all its textbooks available for free as Adobe Acrobat files (PDF) at its website. Thank you, Mr.Nehru for this information, I hope this post in my blog will help students and teachers who are looking for the books.
Of course, I don’t see in short term the e-books replacing the printed version as they are extremely low priced due to government subsidy. For example, STD II Tamil textbook of more than hundred pages costs just Rs.15.
2012 Update:
In May 2012 at my firm, we released a free/no-ad App for iPad to read the textbooks easily with one click with the contents downloaded offline. In September 2013 we released the same App for Android. A few months later, on oral instruction from School Education Department (Government of Tamil Nadu) we had to discontinue/remove the apps. Though the textbooks are free, we were told that the Government owns the Copyright and has the exclusive rights for distribution in all forms.
I am looking forward to the day when the textbooks will be licensed under Creative Commons. Thanks for all your support extended to this app.
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Please send the I st std tamilbook in the year of 1994-1995
i want year 1989 third standard books
i need 6th to 10th 2007 to 2008 batch books… in which website shall i get it
pls help me
hi sir i need 10th std science book
Sir Where can i find old SSLC 10th books?
I could find only for 2011 – 2012 books
Pls help me
Please provide the address of the book shop where we could buy TN textbooks.
Thanks,
Radha.
If you are in Chennai, you can go to book shops near T.Nagar Bus terminus or Mylapore Luz Tank. You can buy directly from Tamil Nadu Textbook corporation (Department of School Education) in College Road (Opposite to Shankara Nethralaya Eye Hospital)
Dear Sir,
I wish to collect the Old Text Books of Tamil Subject for the Classes IX, X, XI, XII published in 1980. Will you please suggest me where I can get the copies. If electronic copies are available, it be highly useful.
With Regards,
V.Thyirumalaisam
Thanks for sharing this information.please upload practicall books also..
Thanks regards
gayathri
Great of you having the thaought that ‘It will serve as a valuable reference for those living outside Tamil Nadu and studying Tamil.’I am living in Muscat my daughter in class-2 with no Tamil subject. By downloading and printing it in a book format,i taught her all the alphabet and now she can read and write well. Thanks for all making this facility possible.
Raj
hello sir… i want some help for agri info services from you..
by sakthivel
Managing Trustee
Rural Education And Agriculture Development Organization
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I guess the pages are removed to be updated with new textbooks once released. To see the older versions, you can visit Web Archive at http://wayback.archive.org/web/, this stores various pages all over internet at periodic frequencies. Kind of like a time capsule.
thank u.
this site is not avilable now
Hi,
But now for Std1 to Std10th is not available.
Any idea, when it will be available?
Thanks & Regards,
Anandhi
Fantastic information.. for me.. looking for this to know the standard of education in TN to align with edu in Bangalore
Thanks a lot for this information. It would be very useful for me to teach my kids Tamil with a proper sylabbus.
Dear Sh Venkat,
Thanks for sharing the information in your blog.
Regards,
E.Iniya Nehru