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The Dravidian peoples are an ethnolinguistic supraethnicity composed of many distinct ethnolinguistic groups native to South Asia (predominantly India). They speak the Dravidian languages , which have a combined total of about 250 million native speakers. [1]
Dravidian peoples refers to the peoples that natively speak languages belonging to the Dravidian language family. The language group appears unrelated to Indo-European language families, most significantly the Indo-Aryan language.
The term Dravidian now primarily denotes the South Indian peoples as a group which (1) speaks one or other of a series of closely related languages, differing radically from the Aryan languages of North India ; (2) through the community of these distinctive languages, embodies an ancient and
Jan 7, 2019 · The Dravidians may seem more indigenous only because the surviving Dravidian peoples are concentrated in southern India, where they assimilated larger aboriginal populations; the large...
- Akhilesh Pillalamarri
May 28, 2023 · Dravidians are an ethnolinguistic family of people with a unique culture and history who primarily live in the Southern Indian states and parts of Sri Lanka in South Asia. They speak one of...
Dravidian studies (also Dravidology, Dravidiology) is the academic field devoted to the Dravidian languages, literature, and culture. It is a superset of Tamil studies and a subset of Indology .
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This thesis examines the differences in retellings of the Rāmāyaṇa from the North – Valmīki’s text – and in the South – through Kampaṉ’s Tamil language text as well as a few modern South Indian retellings – to see how the Rāmāyaṇa is actively applied as a tool of either oppression or resistance.
