Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries by Vijaya Ramaswamy

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries by Vijaya Ramaswamy

By Vijaya Ramaswamy

The cultural historical past of the Tamils dates again thousand years. As a language, Tamil has existed because the pre-Christian period, round the similar time because the early classical languages Hebrew and Sankrit. the 1st booklet on Tamil grammar, the Tolkappiyam, used to be written round the 5th century BCE. this present day, Tamil food has captured the mind's eye of the vegetarian international, and Tamil cinema, with its heavy political allegories and opera variety song, is renowned around the globe. no longer limited to their fatherland of Tamil Nadu, the Tamils represent a robust diaspora in Sri Lanka (where they're scuffling with for his or her political rights), Singapore (where Tamil is without doubt one of the nationwide languages), and Malaysia. The diaspora extends to locations as remote because the U.K., the united states, and Australia. Tamil temples and cultural facilities are available all over from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and from Texas to Toronto.

The Historical Dictionary of the Tamils provides a brilliant photo of the Tamils' cultural and literary traditions, either the ancient prior and the colourful current. this can be performed via an inventory of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, black and white pictures, maps, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries masking Tamil background from the megalithic age to provide day and Tamil personalities, economics, literature, tune, politics, and cinema. This one-volume reference is a wonderful access element right into a deeper knowing of the cultural milieu of the Tamils.

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1972 Marudur Gopala Ramachandran made a dramatic break with the DMK to launch his own party, the Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (ADMK). 1975 15 August: Chennai Television Station began broadcasting. 1977 The DMK lost power in Tamil Nadu in the General Elections and the AIADMK under the charismatic leadership of M. G. Ramachandran came to power. 1977–1987 M. G. Ramachandran (MGR) remained the chief minister of Tamil Nadu for three consecutive terms. 1981 The Fifth World Tamil Conference was held in Madurai.

S. Bharati, and K. Venkat Rao. 1911 Beginning of revolutionary terrorism in Tamil politics. The conspiracy and assassination of the Tirunelveli collector, E. W. D. Ashe, on 17 June 1911 by Vanchi Iyer of Krishnapuram in Trinelveli district. 1916 Foundation of the South Indian Federal Liberation Front or the Justice Party. Its leaders were P. Thyagaraya Chetty, T. M. Nair, and later E. V. Ramaswami Naicker, who came to be known as Periyar. 1925 E. V. Ramaswami Naicker started the Svaya Mariyadai Iyakkam or the Self–Respect Movement, which focused on the devolution of power to the Tamils and was anti-Sanskritic, anti-Brahmanical, and anti-Congress.

This culture coincided with the use of iron in the region that was more characteristic of the ancient Tamil culture than bronze cultures, although sites like Adichchanallur have yielded extensive bronze artifacts. Four or five varieties of megalithic stone burials are discernible—the cist, the dolmen, stone circles, subterranean excavations or pits, and the commemorative or part-sepulchral edifices such as menhirs, referred to as topikal. The Chingleput district was dominated by dolmen, while Coimbatore, Salem, and Tiruchirapalli megaliths were cist-based.

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