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| | The Demand for Dravida Nadu |
 | | At the Conference the Kumararaja of Chettinad, M.A.Muthiah Chettiar, hoisted the Tamil Flag and said that "the flag was the symbol of the great Chera, Chola and Pandiyan dynasties of Tamilnad", and appealed to the audience "to keep aloft the high ideals and traditions of the Tamils". |
 | | Muthiah Mudaliar added that the term Tamil was a comprehensive name, which included its sister languages, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada, and that the term Tamilnadu, understood in a limited sense, was confined to the southern districts but according to its extended significance, it included the whole of the Madras Presidency. |
 | | It was the anti-Hindi agitation that made the Tamils more conscious of the heritage of their language and culture and the idea of a separate state to protect them gained ground. |
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