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| | Tamil people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Tamil people in Tamil Nadu are also passionate about their cinema. | | | Tamil wars against Sri Lanka culminated in the Chola annexation of the island in the 10th century, which lasted until the latter half of the 11th century. | | | The oldest Tamil communities are those of southern India and northeastern Sri Lanka. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_people
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| | Tamils - A brief introduction by Prof. Velupillai |
| | Its rebirth is as a religion of protest, as a religion of the down-trodden. | | | The Buddhist contribution is seen in the manhimEkaly and the kunhdalakEci, the Jaina contribution in the NIlakEci and the Saiva contribution in the civagnAnacittijAr. | | | Saiva and Vaishnava movements were presented to the Tamil people as Tamil religions This was made possible by religious synchronism. |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5180/tamil.html
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| | Tamil History - தமிழ் வரலாறு, ... |
| | A Tamil version of the journal was edited by Maraimalai Atikal whose writings gave a new sense of cohesion to the Tamil people - a cohesion which was derived from the rediscovery of their ancient literature and the rediscovery of their ancient religion. | | | Suffering unites a people and the suffering of the Tamil people in the island of Sri Lanka, in their struggle for freedom and justice, has also served to bring together Tamils living not only in Tamil Eelam and Tamil Nadu but also those living in many other lands. | | | The Sinhala people trace their origins in the island to the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India, around 500 B.C. and the Mahavamsa, the Sinhala chronicle of a later period (6th Century A.D.) records that Prince Vijaya arrived on the island on the same day that the Buddha attained Enlightenment in India. |
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http://www.tamilnation.org/heritage
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| | Sangam.org - Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA, Inc. - Tamil People's Duty |
| | Through this mandate the Tamil people have acknowledged the leadership of the Liberation Tigers as that of the Tamil national leadership. | | | The Tamil people have, with a sense of responsibility and national spirit, undertaken this part of their duty under strenuous circumstances, waiting for long hours in the voting line under scorching sun to exercise their franchise. | | | The Tamil people have, by this mandate expressed unequivocally that they stand united, sinking all differences, under the leadership of the Liberation Tigers. |
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http://www.sangam.org/articles/view?id=290
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| | Tamil Eelam |
| | As the Tamil people sense of helplessness deepened, Tamil politicians advocated a separate Tamil state. | | | The Sinhala state's oppression of the Tamil people began in various forms almost immediately, attacking everything that defined the Tamils as a nation. | | | Sinhala colonisation of traditional Tamil areas was started in the fifties, and was intensified in the eighties with the security forces wiping out Tamil villages and replacing them with Sinhala settlements. |
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http://www.infoeelam.com
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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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| | Tamil Canadian Services : News Room |
| | Sinhalese people and their political and religious leaders are unable to comprehend and accept the very existence of a historically constituted nation of Tamil people living in their traditional homeland in north-eastern Sri Lanka, entitled to fundamental political rights and freedoms. | | | Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers were silent on Tuesday over President Mahinda Rajapakse's rejection of their demand for a separate homeland, but a pro-rebel politician said it could jeopardise peace talks later this month. | | | The walls are hung with faded photographs: her husband, shot and burned in his fishing boat by the Sri Lankan navy; her two nephews, Tamil Tiger guerrillas killed in battle; and 17 relatives, including 13-year-old daughter May Linda, washed away by the tsunami. |
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http://www.news.tamilcanadian.com
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| | BBC NEWS World South Asia Full text: Tamil Tiger proposals |
| | The proposal by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on behalf of the Tamil people for an agreement to establish an interim self-governing authority for the north-east of the island of Sri Lanka. | | | Noting that the Tamil people mandated their elected representatives to establish an independent sovereign, secular state for the Tamil people in the elections subsequent to the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976, | | | Being aware that the history of the relations between the Tamil people and the Sinhala people has been a process of broken promises and unilateral abrogation, by successive governments of Sri Lanka, of pacts and agreements solemnly entered into between the government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) and the elected representatives of the Tamil people, |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3232913.stm
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| | Other Tamil Eelam Groups |
| | It was the first Tamil group which attempted to establish a close working relationship with the Muslims of Eastern Sri Lanka, who constitute the second largest ethnic group in the eastern province next to Tamils. | | | The EROS drew its cadres mainly from Batticaloa and Amparai districts in Eastern Sri Lanka. | | | The ENDLF was popularly known as "Three Stars", indicating the three ethnic communities living in the traditional Tamil homeland, and it was a breakaway group of PLOTE, formed under the tripartite leadership of "Paranthan Rajan" alias Gnanasegeram, Eeswaran and Douglas Devananda formerly of the EPRLF. |
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http://www.tamiltigers.net/othergroups.html
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| | Tamil essay |
| | He is one of those Tamils who are half in the logical world, and half in the world of automatically accepting the truths of tradition. | | | On the other hand, it is a traditional Tamil belief is that they come from the island of Lemuria (located southeast of Sri Lanka), which was the equivalent of the West's Isle of Atlantis. | | | It is typical of Tamil Nadu to have all different class of vehicles co-existing on the same road, just as all religions and philosophies co-exist, as well as ancient and modern medical practices. |
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~emiller/Tamil_essay.html
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| | Tamil Canadian Services |
| | Unfortunately due to the ongoing genocide perpetrated by the Sri Lankan government, the Tamil culture is on the verge of being destroyed. | | | The culture and history of the Tamil people of Eelam has a history traced back many thousands of years, and provides a wealth of knowledge steeped in ancient tradition and religion. | | | TamilCanadian was designed to provide information about the culture and history of the Tamil people from the island of Sri Lanka (Ceylon), specifically in regard to those Tamil's who are currently living abroad in Canada. |
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http://www.tamilcanadian.com
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| | Tamil.net - தமிழ் இணையம் |
| | Create a listing that promotes your new Tamil.net Let people know what the Tamil is about, and invite them to join. | | | let me know where can i hear the tamil song janani janani by ilayaraja (thai mogambikai)? | | | Re: hosting of PM etexts in Tamil wikipedia |
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http://www.tamil.net
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| | Tamil Nation & Beyond - தமிழ் ... |
| | Caste and the Tamil Nation - Brahmins, Non Brahmins and Dalits | | | Indictment against Sri Lanka - the Record Speaks... | | | [to read Tamil text please install a Tamil Unicode font from |
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http://www.tamilnation.org
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| | TamilPower.com-Tamil Eelam Zone-Tamil Tigers, Tamil People, Tamil History, Tamil Heroes |
| | Tamil Eelam, Jaffna, Pirabakaran, LTTE, Tamil Tigers, Tamil Eelam Police Forces, Sri Lanka, Tamil Leader, Maveerar, Tamil National heroes, Eelam links, Eelam news, Eelam military, sea tigers, black tigers, charles antony, Kittu, Women Fighters, Freedom Birds, Oyatha Alaikal, Unceasing Waves 1, 2, 3, Operations, Articles, Varalaru, History, Thamil Informations, and more in eelam.tamilpower.com. | | | TamilPower.com-Tamil Eelam Zone-Tamil Tigers, Tamil People, Tamil History, Tamil Heroes |
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http://eelam.tamilpower.com
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| | தமிழ் பாடல் பக்கம் - ... |
| | More than 3000 Tamil songs, Site dedicate for Tamil Songs,Our Tamil Songs collection includes old, new, mid, Classic and Devotional songs composed by Illayarajah, A.R.Rahman, Deva, Hariharan, M.S.V, K.v. |
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http://tamil.tamilsongs.net
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