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| | Dravidian languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, and they appear to be unrelated to languages of other known families. | | | Caldwell coined the term "Dravidian" from the Sanskrit drāvida, which was used in a 7th century text to refer to the languages of the south of India. | | | The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 26 languages that are mainly spoken in southern India and Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dravidian_languages
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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Dravidian race |
| | The Dravidian Race is the name sometimes still given to the peoples of southern and central India and northern Sri Lanka who speak Dravidian languages, the best known of which are Telugu(&;) and Tamil. | | | According to the Puranas, the Dravidians are descendants of the Vedic Turvasha people. | | | Geneticist Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza maintained in his book The History and Geography of Human Genes that the proto-Dravidians of the Indian subcontinent were a Caucasoid people, preceded by an Australoid-type people whose linguistic origins remain unknown, and followed by Indo-European-speaking migrants sometime later. |
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http://www.reference.com/browse/wiki/Dravidian_race
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| | The Aryan-Dravidian Controversy |
| | This idea was taken further and Hindu gods like Krishna, whose name means dark, or Shiva who is portrayed as dark, were said to have originally been Dravidian gods taken over by the invading Aryans (under the simplistic idea that Dravidians as dark-skinned people must have worshipped dark colored gods). | | | Dravidians do not have to feel that Vedic culture is any more foreign to them than it is to the people of north India. | | | In addition the traditional inventor of the Dravidian languages was said to have been none other than Agastya, one of the most important rishis of the Rig Veda, the oldest Sanskrit text. |
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http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/ancient/aryan/aryan_frawley_1.html
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| | Dravidian languages -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Nearly all the people are ethnically Maldivian, a group of mixed Dravidian, Sinhalese, Arab, African, and other origins. | | | a member of the North Dravidian subfamily of Dravidian languages, spoken by some 1.8 million people of the Oraon tribes of the Chota Nagpur plateau of east-central India. | | | Brahui, a Dravidian language, is used in Pakistan and Iran. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9109791
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| | Dravidian India |
| | He states that Dr. Chatterji agreed with this view: "Dr. Chatterji says, `The Dravidians look like being a Mediterranean people coming out of Crete and passing through Asia Minor and Mesopotamia, where they were in close touch with the Sumerians and the Elamites; and possibly these latter were related to them and the Cretans. | | | The Aryan God, Varuna, was probably the God of the Dravidian tribes, being on the borders of the sea, to whom the Aryan Rishis accorded a place in their pantheon. | | | The God of the Dravidian agricultural tribes was merged in the personality of the Vedic Indra. |
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http://www.saxakali.com/southasia/dravidian_india.htm
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| | BhashaIndia.com :: Dravidian Language |
| | The origins of the term "Dravidian" lies in the employment of terms like "dramila", "dramida" and "dravida" found in Sanskrit sources designating, respectively, the people, region or language of the whole of South India. | | | Today, there are over 200 million people around the world who speak Dravidian languages, in over 70 countries. | | | While Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu have been relatively more influenced by Sanskrit and have borrowed the aspirated consonants from Sanskrit with certain common Sanskrit words and derivatives, Tamil is the least influenced and retains the closest form of the Proto-Dravidian language postulated. |
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http://www.bhashaindia.com/Patrons/LanguageTech/Dravidian.aspx
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| | Facts about Dravidian languages |
| | The antecedents of the term Dravidian like dramila, dramida and dravida found in Sanskrit sources had varying designates historically referring to people, region or language of the whole of the South or a part of it, that is, Tamil. | | | It is the author's contribution that the south Dravidian further sub-divides into two with Telugu standing apart from the other three literary languages. | | | The Dravidians were engaged in settled agriculture in wet and dry lands and used domesticated animals and birds (ox, cow, sheep, pig, donkey, dog, cat, chicken) and metal implements (plough, pick-axe, crowbar). |
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http://www.flonnet.com/fl2022/stories/20031107000807300.htm
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| | The Dravidian movement |
| | And, in projecting a ``Dravidian'' identity and rooting it in what was perceived of as the culture of the Tamil people, he succeeded in giving a powerful political thrust to this mass-based social alternative. | | | In focussing on Tamil national identity, the concept of a ``Dravidian'' civilisational identity was lost. | | | Here it is necessary to consider and reconsider the answer given by Periyar and the Tamil non-Brahman movement generally: that the way forward is through a kind of national liberation, a recognition of a positive alternative community which was taken to be a ``Dravidian'' identity or a ``Tamil'' national identity. |
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http://www.ambedkar.org/gail/Dravidianmovement.htm
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| | DRAVIDIAN LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION |
| | Brahui, perhaps the oldest member of the Dravidian Family, is spoken by six hundred thousand people in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran; 10,000 speak Jankar in Nepal; there are old and new migrants in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Indonesia and Africa. | | | A "Call Notice" regarding the formation of an Association for the study of Dravidian languages, and all aspects of Dravidian culture and people, was issued jointly by Prof.. | | | A highlight of the activities is the Annual Conference of Dravidian Linguists. |
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http://www.ijdl.org
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| | Tamils - A brief introduction by Prof. Velupillai |
| | Saiva and Vaishnava movements were presented to the Tamil people as Tamil religions This was made possible by religious synchronism. | | | Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/ South Indian family of languages. | | | Its rebirth is as a religion of protest, as a religion of the down-trodden. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tamil.html
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| | Tamil History - தமிழ் வரலாறு, சரித்திரம் |
| | In philology the term 'Dravidian' was used to denote a group a group of languages mainly spoken in South India, namely, Tamil Telegu, Kannada and Malayalam. | | | His attack on casteism, his social reform movement and his Self Respect Movement in the 1920s infused a new dignity, thanmaanam, amongst the Tamil people and laid the foundations on which Tamil nationalism has grown. | | | That the armed resistance movement of the Tamil people should have originated in Tamil Eelam and not in Tamil Nadu is not altogether surprising. |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage/index.htm
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| | Dravidian Culture |
| | Dravidian is the name given to a linguistically related group of people in India. | | | Dravidian language has remained relatively intact despite a considerable amount of contact and intermarriage with other people in the Indian subcontinent. | | | However the Dravidian empire did hold out for several centuries before being taken over by the Aryans. |
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http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/cultural/oldworld/middle_east/dravidian.html
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| | Canadian Tamils Page |
| | Saiva and Vaishnava movements were presented to the Tamil people as Tamil religions This was made possible by religious synchronism. | | | The Dravidian languages are mother tongues of about a quarter of the Indian population. | | | So, the Dravidian family of languages is a South Asian family of languages in one sense. |
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http://www.geotamil.com/ctamils/tamil2.htm
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| | But the Dravidian movement stood for the upward social mobility of the middle groups, whereas it should have, in terms of its own ideology of rejection of religion and going in for the fundamental rights of all the people, included Dalits also. | | | Social justice, the birth cry of the Dravidian movement, is a concept that has not been accepted by a major section of the upper castes that form the social base of the BJP. | | | When one retraces the steps of the Dravidian movement, the first and the more important one was the emergence of a new `class' conglomeration of various non-Brahmin castes of the then Madras Province — the Pillais, the Nairs, the Kammas, the Kapus and the Reddys. |
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http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=20021108002409200.htm&date=fl1922/&prd=fline&
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| | Shan Ranjit - Selected Writings - Decaying of Dravidian Movement |
| | Like the conservative movement in United States having lost his zeal at present- after their convincing victories over global communism and socialism- the Dravidian movement has lost its ability to energize the people because it had not identified any new causes since coming to power. | | | It is sad that the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu has not only lost it goal and but is also decaying. | | | MGR also flouted the most important ideological principle of Perriayar and the Dravidian movement – atheism – by being an avid temple visitor. |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/forum/shanranjit
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| | Tamil - Ethnos - Books about the Tamil People |
| | The Tamil people are a South Asian community numbering more than seventy million and living mostly in Tamil Nadu state and neighbouring areas in south-eastern India (65 million), in the north and east of Sri Lanka (three million), in Malaysia (two million), Singapore (approx 200,000) and Canada (approx 200,000, most in Toronto). | | | Nearly all Tamils speak the Tamil language, considered by most theories to be one of the Dravidian tongues once spoken widely across the Indian subcontinent but now largely confined to its southern quarter. | | | Women, branch stories, and religious rhetoric in a Tamil Buddhist text (Foreign and comparative studies. |
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http://www.almudo.com/ethnos/Tamil.htm
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| | Dravidian languages on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The Dravidian languages are spoken by more than 200 million people, living chiefly in S and central India and N Sri Lanka. | | | The Dravidian languages have their own alphabets, which go back to a common source that is related to the Devanagari alphabet used for Sanskrit. | | | DRAVIDIAN LANGUAGES [Dravidian languages], family of about 23 languages that appears to be unrelated to any other known language family. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Dravidia-l.asp
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| | A FORCE FOR NATIONAL INTEGRATION |
| | Dravidianism, supposed to take within its sweep all sections of the Tamil people, had miserably failed in neutralising the poison of casteism and untouchability within its fold. | | | The whole ideological thrust of the separatist Dravidian movement was blunted and made irrelevant by the deeply-felt Hindu appeal. | | | About a century ago, in Tamil Nadu, a separatist Dravidian movement was fathered by the foreign Christian missionaries in conjunction with the British imperialists. |
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http://www.hindubooks.org/Vision/ch5.html
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| | The Dravidian movement |
| | And, in projecting a ``Dravidian'' identity and rooting it in what was perceived of as the culture of the Tamil people, he succeeded in giving a powerful political thrust to this mass-based social alternative. | | | Here it is necessary to consider and reconsider the answer given by Periyar and the Tamil non-Brahman movement generally: that the way forward is through a kind of national liberation, a recognition of a positive alternative community which was taken to be a ``Dravidian'' identity or a ``Tamil'' national identity. | | | African-Americans had a ``black is beautiful'' movement; but television and the cinema throughout India testify to the fact that for Indians still ``light is right.'' Dark-skinned girls feel they are not beautiful, and every religious serial on Doordarshan continues to show the ``gods'' as light-skinned and ``rakshasas'' as dark, without protest. |
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http://www.ambedkar.org/gail/Dravidianmovement.htm
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| | The Indian Express : Op-Ed |
| | She has realised that the Dravidian movement has miserably failed to set any example to the non-Brahmin castes at large, that atheism is a credo people shy away from. | | | The Muslims, essentially converts from among the ranks of the lower castes, had taken to the Dravidian movement and were even encouraged to inveigh the Hindu gods from its own platforms, incidentally resulting in a limited latter-day Hindu backlash. | | | The progressive marginalisation of the Brahmins in the state and the upward mobility of the backward castes could justly be claimed as an achievement of the Dravidian movement. |
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http://www.indianexpress.com/ie20020327/op2.html
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| | Daily Excelsior... Editorial |
| | The early Dravidian movement degenerated for a time into crude Brahmin-bashing, and its excesses (like the forceful cutting of individual Brahmins&; sacred threads and tufts) hardly endeared the avowed cause to the peace-loving majority of the Tamil people. | | | The core of these claims is that the Dravidian casteism is actually social reform. | | | What is wrong with Dravidianism is not its origin in anti-Brahminism, neither as opposition to the decadent values of Brahminism nor as a challenge to the social dominance of the Brahmin community. |
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http://www.dailyexcelsior.com/01aug13/edit.htm
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| | Myth of the Aryan Invasion: The horse argument/The Dravidian Hypothesis |
| | he survival of Brahui, a Dravidian language, spoken even today by large numbers of people in Baluchistan and the adjoining areas in Afghanistan and Iran, is an important factor in the identification of the Indus Civilization as Dravidian. | | | I am not however convinced by his attempt to derive Meluhha (the name of the land of the Indus in the [Mesopotamian] cuneiform texts) from Dravidian mel-akam, 'High country', not actually attested, as Parpola himself points out, in any of the Dravidian languages. | | | The cumulative weight of evidence makes Dravidian the most likely language to have been spoken bv the Harappans. |
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http://www.harappa.com/script/maha3.html
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| | belief in a power that permeates the world, or praying to no one in particular - Ummah.com |
| | The Toda people, a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India, which still speak the Dravidian language, observe the practice of praying to no one in particular, just as did the early peoples before the times of religious consciousness. | | | Some people falsely believed they worshipped nature or animals but, it in essence was a belief in Manitou. | | | The early Native American Indian, believed in Manitou ~ a supernatural power that permeates the world. |
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http://www.ummah.net/forum/showthread.php?t=48223
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| | purevolume™ dravidian |
| | We were told by many people that they would be present at the show, only to arrive to under 10 people. | | | Also, Dravidian is adding to the stage show with some new lights and a banner. | | | Dravidian returns to the stage this month, ending a four month hiatus, with shows at BillieBob's, Seven Bar & Cafe, and possibly more. |
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http://www.purevolume.com/dravidian
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| | Adherents.com |
| | "Bob Kitchener is one of hundreds of young people--estimates range from two hundred to seven hundred fifty--in the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation, one of the surviving Jesus People movements from the 1960s. | | | the Dravidian Ajivikas began to develop ideas that may have led to their assimilation into other movements, or they may have simply fallen into such disfavor that the movement eventually disintegrated. | | | An ascetic movement in India (sixth century B.C. to fourteenth century A.D.) which was noted for its strict determinism. |
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http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_17.html
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| | In tune with tradition |
| | From the 1940s to the 1960s, the leaders of the Dravidian Movement, through their forceful writings, helped foster pride in the minds of the people for the Tamil heritage and a love for Tamil language and literature. | | | Although the latter favoured free verse, it had different objectives. | | | Although the movement ultimately succeeded in winning the approval of Marxist critics such as Kailasapathi, who had been critical of free verse, its poetic activity slowed down during the days of the Emergency (1975-77). |
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http://www.flonnet.com/fl2105/stories/20040312001207800.htm
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| | Caste/Class Opposition to Tamil Eelam |
| | Of course, this Front has many tentacles-it is also being used to develop and cons olidate relationship between individuals and organisations who have only one thing in common-the destruction of the LTTE and subordinating the Dravidian people not only in Sri Lanka but in Tamil Nadu. | | | There is an alarmist fear that the break-up of Sri Lan ka would re-invigorate the Dravidian movement to the detriment of the hegemony of the dominant caste/class in the region. | | | But then the movement and its ideology could not be sustained for long, opportunists and career politicians using the political front of Dravidianism did muc h damage to the movement as a whole. |
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http://www.news.tamilcanadian.com/news/2000/05/20000526_1.shtml
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| | Hindu Munnani leader gives Gita to DMK chief - Sify.com |
| | Clarifying that he was not opposed to Gita, Karunanidhi told reporters that he had only tried to point out that Jayalalithaa's message asking people to follow the tenets of Gita was "contraditctory" as she belonged to the Dravidian movement, which did not accept the philosophy of Gita. | | | Being associated with the Dravidian movement, the thoughts in Gita were "unacceptable" to him. | | | However, Karunanidhi maintained that the "thoughts expressed" in Gita were "unacceptable" to Dravidian movement. |
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http://sify.com/news/politics/fullstory.php?id=13562600
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| | teakada: Politics Archives |
| | The origin of the Dravidian Movement is usually traced back to the "Non-Brahmin Manifesto", that was adopted by the South Indian People's Association in December 1916. | | | The Dravidian movement is no exception, and it was in fact blessed to have one of the finest intellect's of the time as it's opponent - C.Rajagopalachari. | | | anyway the anti-hindi movement is nonsense coz it only helps britishers.i am tamil and proud 2 b... |
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