#DRAVIDIANS

[rhianna]

Natives of northern India, by W. Crooke ... With thirty-two illustrations.

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Main AuthorCrooke, William, 1848-1923.Language(s)English PublishedLondon : A. Constable and Company, ltd., 1907. SubjectsEthnology >  Ethnology / India. India >  India / Description and travel. India >  India / Social conditions. Physical Descriptionxiv, 270 p. front., plates, ports., map. 23 cm.

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Crooke, W. (1907). Natives of northern India. London: A. Constable and Company, ltd..

[geoazie]

Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Malayalam Malayalam is Dravidian language spoken by 37 million people over Kerala and southern India. It's an official language of the state of Kerala, Lakshadweep and Mahé in India.

[ratanslily]

Stop! pairing! This! Gorgeous! Woman! With! The! Pasty! Colonizer!

[thozhar]

"There have been many Dravidian forums in Malaysia before, where overseas speakers were invited, but nothing this severe has ever happened before,” Nagenteran observed. Harassment and deliberate sabotage were inflicted on both organisers and speakers. On the day of the event, while the speakers were in their hotels, they received suspicious calls from people pretending to be the organisers, asking them to come down to the lobby. “I told them to stay in their rooms until I called them and not to pick up calls from unknown numbers,” Nagenteran said.

The entire forum took place under the vigilant presence of the Malaysian police and immigration department. Seven police officers, including the Dang Wangi Special Branch, Bukit Aman Special Branch, and the Kuala Lumpur Contingent Headquarters, along with nine immigration officers, surveyed the forum. There were several other events organised after the main event with constant police presence throughout the day.

In addition, about ten representatives from various Hindu NGOs attended the event. One representative, Rishikumar Vadivelu, vice president of the NGO Hindhudharma Maamandram, refused to stand up for the Malaysian Tamil Thai Vaazhtu (Tamil Anthem), penned by Malaysian Tamil writer Seeni Naina Mohamed. Secretary Ponvaasagam of Malaysia Dravida Kazhagam (MDK) and several other MDK members noted his behaviour and approached Rishi to firmly advise him to stand up, but he refused.

Later, when a photo of Rishi’s antics went viral on social media, he declared that he didn't want to, nor should he have to, stand for a Tamil anthem written by a Muslim. He insinuated that the Tamil literary icon Seeni Naina Mohamed was a “Muslim missionary” trying to proselytise Tamil-Hindus for Islam.

Hindhudharma Maamandram's President, Radhakrishnan Alagamalai, sent a letter to Deputy National Unity Minister SaraswathyKandasami reiterating that the forum was in direct opposition to the Malaysian national ideology. Saraswathy, an opportunistic caste-Hindu politician with strong ties to caste-Hindu associations, sent a letter to the home ministry emphasising the much speculated threat of atheism. She also mentioned that one of the speakers had a speech titled “Periyar from a Marxist Perspective,” fueling the anti-communist sentiment already present in the state.

The ministry advised Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Adam Adli, who previously contributed to the cause and accepted the invitation to inaugurate the forum, against following through on his plans. Just a day before the event, Adli’s assistant, Mr. Amar, informed Nagenteran that the Deputy Minister would not be attending. Nagenteran expressed his disappointment, stating that moral support from the governing party could have been significant in legitimising their cause.

[a-cloud-for-dreams]

do people have certain sprites they associate with certain routes or even consider canon? i do 😭😭

[sivavakkiyar]

Tamil ultimately also gave the English language the word ‘orange’, by which I mean it posed at the heart of it a problem for English rhyming that has never truly been resolved. Love that for us. No I don’t wanna hear about this ‘door hinge’ shit Marshall

[molkolsdal]

candy

late 13c., "crystallized sugar," from Old French çucre candi "sugar candy," ultimately from Arabic qandi, from Persian qand "cane sugar," probably from Sanskrit khanda "piece (of sugar)," perhaps from Dravidian (compare Tamil kantu "candy," kattu "to harden, condense").

[snixx]

everyone's heard of the south indians having reactions of visceral loathing when it comes to hindi stereotype but y'all forget about the most dramatic mfs out there when it comes to hating on hindi and hindi centricism

bangalis

[random-xpressions]

Quite unjust if I don't write anything in my mother tongue. So here's a thought:

സ്നേഹം കാണിക്കാനുള്ളതാണ് ഒളിപ്പിക്കാനുള്ളതല്ല

Transliteration: (Sneham kaanikkaanulladhaan olippikkanulladhalla)

Roughly translated means:

"Love is something that's to be shown, not to be kept hidden!"

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[curtwilde]

It's so funny how sanghiblr will selectively criticize NCERT. They will harass them for sources about medieval and mughal history, but will parrot the "harappan and vedic civilisations are one and the same" bullshit in NCERT that has been proven to be false. Because that one fits their agenda and the ridiculous claim that aryans are indigenous or whatever.

[13thpythagoras]

no scientist would deny that black people lived in Europe, and likely all over the entire Eurasian / African super-continent; before caucasians came in. Black Africans have been seafaring and crossing the Atlantic for millennia. Scientists now agree that even before the younger dryas, seafaring peoples also populated the Americas via Pacific island chains. There's no dispute that at least 3 different genetic sources of humans entered the Americas, including as well the Siberian-American landbridge. beyond dispute that white people originated from south Asia / India, and / or Hindi culture (hence, Indo-European meaning, Hindo or Hindu-European); it makes sense that this was a mercy program for people with albinism, born in the tropics of South Asia and India, to migrate north in their lifetime to seek a life away from the sun that would leave them burnt and with lowered life expectancy. No scientist would argue with the statement that India sent their albinos north and that became what we know as "caucasians" today, so calling caucasians "dravidian albinos" seems pretty accurate to me, almost seems beyond scientific debate at this point, but this write up does a nice job of at least conveying the fragility among audiences on this topic. Is it true some white people get offended by this analysis? holy snowflake meltdown batman I'm a human first and foremost, but i won't deny i am typically perceived as a white guy, this does not offend me whatsoever, I'm just genuinely curious where the controversy or confusion is ...

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The Tamilian antiquary.

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Related NamesT.A. Society (Tiruchchirāppalli, India) Language(s)English ; Tamil PublishedNew Delhi : Asian Educational Services, 1986. EditionReprint ed. SubjectsTamil (Indic people) >  Tamil (Indic people) / Collected works. India, South >  India, South / Civilization. Physical Description2 v. : ill. ; 23 cm.

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T.A. Society (Tiruchchirāppalli, I. (1986).The Tamilian antiquary. Reprint ed. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services.

[geoazie]

Aesthetic of the languages on earth : Kannada

Kannada is a Dravidian language spoken by 43.7 million people over the Karnataka region of India. It is an official language of Karnataka.

[ratanslily]

Deviya Sharma (5 years later)

did the Dravidian and Kashmirian Devis decide to get contact lens🤔

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[tyrannoninja]

Harappan Dancer

This is a female dancer from the Harappan civilization that spread over the Indus Valley in South Asia between 3300 and 1300 BC, being the first urban culture known to develop in the subcontinent. Her jewelry is referenced from a bronze statuette uncovered at the Harappan site of Mohenjo-daro in what is now northern Pakistan, but whereas the original sculpture showed a nude figure, I gave my version a top and loincloth to make it safer for work.