.
.
..
most highly
cultivated
high
degree of culture
tamil
alone stands apart
unbroken
literary traditions
most
primitive language
telgraphic
transmission
oldest
language
tolkappiyam
nedunalvaadail
melodious
language
exception
of tamil
most elaborate
philosophical
literature
reacted
on Aryan thought.
tamil trade
most intellectual
people
cradle
of human race
most important
original
inhabitants
neolithic
culture.
tamil architecture
tamil culture |
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NEOLITHIC CULTURE
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TAMILS
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"There is no doubt that it was
in the close of the palaeolithic period that the Dravidians, from whom
the vast majority of peoples of India are derived first came to prominence.The
"Dravidians" or the Mediterraneans migrated into the land some time, we
may suppose, about the 9th or 8th Millennium B.C and after driving
the "pre-Dravidians" and Indonesian Mundas to the hills and woods, occupied
the more fertile parts and carried on neolithic culture. The "Dravidian"
culture spread throughout India during the next four Millenuiums.""
Above all the neolithians contributed to the evolution of human thought,
morals and religion.".
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Brahmanical legends refer to the strong and wealthy cities
on or near the banks of Indus of which the Aryans took possession after
a hard struggle for their adversaries were well armed, possessed horses
and chariots and built castles of stone. Several of places afterwards celebrated
in Indian history such as Taksha-sila, Mathura and Unjin were said to have
been founded by these non-Aryan people who were probably Dravidian race
and perhaps connected with the ancient Sumerians, the people of South Babylonia,
whose history has been back to the fourth millennium. B.C. |
V.
RANGACHARIYA
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E.B.HAVELL
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ABORIGINES
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AUTOCHTHONOUS
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"The Dravidian race is commonly considered
to be the aborigines of India or at least of southern India, and we have
no information to show that they were not the South" |
An inspection of the map of Neolithic India is enough to
prove that the country was thickly populated by people of one homogeneous
farm of culture, and that the people ought to have been autochthonous as
the Tamil people have always claimed to be in the traditions recorded in
their literature. |
DR.GRIERS
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P.
T. SRINIVASA AIYANGAR
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TAMIL COMMUNITY IN
SINGAPORE
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QUALITIES OF
THE TAMILS
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The
Tamil community has been associated with the history of modem Singapore
from the earliest times. Tamil settlers who came to this island brought
with them not only a very rich and ancient culture, but also craftsmanship
and business acumen of a very high order. Their sweat and toil as much
as their thrift and industry, have contributed much to our great city and
our thriving economy. |
Two qualities of the Tamil speaking population.Firstly,
they had good qualities of citizenship. By and large, they liked work and
were prepared to work.Secondly, they liked to play according to the rules
of the game. |
ONG
PANG BOON
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LEE
KUAN YEW
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TAMILS
IN CEYLON
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OLD CIVILIZATION
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The
punch marked coins of an early era point to connections that Ceylon may
have had with Mohenjodaro and the Indus Valley civilisation. Tamil poetry
composed in Ceylon has been included in the earliest Tamil Anthologies,
and the Tamil spoken in Ceylon represents a pre-Pallava period with its
ancient morphological and grammatical forms and its repertoire of words
considered obsolete for centuries on the neighbouring continent. |
As Marshall believes Mohenjo-Daro represents the oldest
of all civilizations known. But the exhuming of prehistoric India has just
begun only in our time has archaeology turned from Egypt acrossMesopotamia
to India. When the soil of India has been turned up like that of Egypt
we shall probably find there a civilization older than which flowered out
of the mud of Nile. |
XAVIER
S THANINAYAGAM
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WILL
DURANT (NEW YORK-1954)
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EARLIEST NATURALISTIC
SCULPTORS
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TAMIL CIVILIZATION
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A statue carved in red and stone was found
(at Harappa) of a boy of such exquisite workmanship, and such for good
Greek work othe fourth century B.C. Indians may prove to have been the
earliest
naturalistic sculptors in the East. |
Aryan peoples, speaking Sanskrit, had come down through
western passes into North India long before 1000 B.C. There they came into
contact with a Primordial brunet civilization, the Dravidian Civlization,
and learned much from it. |
STANLEY
CASSON
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H.G.
WELLS
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