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Tamil Literature Detail - Online Entertainment portal for TamilNadu, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Food, Cusine, Holidays, Matrimonial, Dating, Online Movies This significant difference between the Tamil literature that came into existence after the 4th century A.D. and the Tamil literature existing before that century should be borne in mind when we study the circumstances which are responsible for the many sided developments in the history Tamil. In ancient times, the assembly or academy of most learned men of Tamil land was called 'Sangam' and the literature produced in these assemblies is known as the Sangam literature. The Sangam literature, unlike the Rig Vedic texts, was secular in nature and revolved around the themes of various heroes and heroines. www.kuttyjapan.com /tamilar/tamilliterature.asp

Articles - South Indian Performing Arts:Whence? Where Now? Whither? by Kollengode S Venkataraman Given the 2000-year-old Tamil history in literature, music, and dance, the Tamil Isai Movement to confront the aversion towards Tamil krtis in the brahmin-dominated Sabhas was natural. The counter movement to revive Tamil Isai was supported by Raja Annamalai Chettiar, founder of the famous Annamalai University, who also founded the Madras Tamil Isai Sangam. With its virulent anti-brahmin plank, the Dravidian Movement was spearheading to break the brahmin domination in Tamil Nadu. www.narthaki.com /info/articles/art92.html

Pongal-2000 Project The Institute also plans to bring out a computerised catalogue of Tamil printed books intended to incorporate bibliographical information from other sources in order to glean a much clearer perspective of the history of published Tamil literature of the 19th and 20th centuries. This is being done with a view to construct a Tamil national corpus to encompass all major Tamil text categories, classical works starting from the Sangam period as well as prose selected from the earliest Portuguese Tamil prints to the latest contemporary works of prose. The Pongal-2000 Project is directed by Dr. Thomas Malten of Cologne University. www.xlweb.com /heritage/asian/german.htm   (440 words)

The Hindu : Book Review : Resurrecting Lemuria To them, Lemuria was the fabled lost land of Tamil culture mentioned in the Sangam literary works and commentaries, which talk of two earlier Sangams (or literary academies), but the country and the literature were destroyed due to a catastrophic flood. For instance, she criticises the historians who, in spite of dismissing the notion of Lemuria, agreed that the historical memory of lost literature and land contained in the early poems must be reassessed. The history I document is necessarily off-modern, eccentric and oppositional." I quote this because it not only clearly states how the author herself views her subject but also to underscore the abstract style in which she writes. www.hindu.com /br/2005/08/16/stories/2005081600681500.htm   (842 words)

The Namboothiri Community - A History There is a solitary reference to the northernmost, and thus possibly the oldest, of these settlements, namely Chellur or Perumchellur or Taliparamba, in the Tamil "Sangam" literature with a Vedic sacrificial background and the Parasurama tradition; but the rest of them are clearly products of a later period. It is possible that these settlements came up between the third and ninth centuries of the Christian era, i.e., the close of the early historical period in the history of South India, described by historians as the "Sangam Age", and establishment of the Chera kingdom of Mahodayapuram. It is also clear that all these had been not only established but also sufficiently prosperous by the beginning of the ninth century, when the Chera kingdom was ruling over Kerala from Mahodayapuram. www.namboothiri.com /articles/history.htm   (842 words)

Tamil History  - தமிழ் வரலாறு, சரித்திரம் It was on the foundations laid by Arumuga Navalar and Thamotherampillai that Swaminatha Aiyar, who was born in Tanjore, in South India, put together the classics of Tamil literature of the Sangam period. Swaminatha Aiyar spent a lifetime researching and collecting many of the palm leaf manuscripts of the classical period and it is to him that we owe the publication of Cilapathikaram, Manimekali, Puranuru, Civakachintamani and many other treatises which are a part of the rich literary heritage of the Tamil people. It is important to discover and publish old palm leaf manuscripts such as ‘Mattakkalappu Poorva Sariththiram’ (Ancient History of Batticaloa) to bring out the history of the communities that live in this region. www.tamilnation.org /heritage/index.htm   (842 words)

History of Tamil Literature - Professor C.R.Krishnamurti Since the last is beyond description and the first two are prerequisites for the third, TholkAppiar defines PoruL (content) to include pleasures derived from human emotions and experiences. Another interesting but controversial observation in Sangam poems is the relatively meager reference given to religion in general. is defined by TholkAppiar himself as the tribute or homage paid by poets and minstrels to Kings and patrons with the expectation of financial rewards or other gifts. www.tamilnation.org /literature/krishnamurti/krishnamurti1.htm   (842 words)

Kodaikanal Travel,Travel to Kodaikanal,Kodaikanal Travel Packages,Travel Kodaikanal,Kodaikanal Tour Travel,Kodaikanal Tours,Tour to Kodaikanal There are references to Kodaikanal in the Tamil Sangam literature of the early Christian era. Kodaikanal has a history as old as time. In 1845, Kodaikanal was started as a hill station at an altitude of 7,375 ft. The saga began with the setting up of the first two bungalows "Sunny-side" and "Shelton". www.indiamart.com /hoteljai/kodaikanal.html   (656 words)

1Up India > India > Tamilnadu > History of Tamil Nadu Even after the end of the Sangam age, Tamil writers, under the patronage of Royal Dynasties, continued to produce excellent literature like the two Tamil epics Silapathikaram written between 200 - 300 AD by Ilango Adigal, the son of a Chera King, and Manimekalai by Sattanar also written between the 2nd and 3rd century AD. This collection of poems is the earliest record of its kind as far as the history of the Tamils is concerned. www.1upindia.com /states/tamilnadu/history.html   (656 words)

The Competition Master - Infobank - Indian History Sangam literature: was written in Tamil, mostly in the form of poetry. Samudragupta: His best-known epigraphic inscriptions are at Allahabad. www.competitionmaster.com /pages/infobank/infohist/s.html   (1362 words)

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