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	Tamil Nadu Information
		As is the case with most of the early history of the state, it is impossible to pin-point the exact period, when the great ‘Tamil Sangam (Academy) flourished, though it can he said with some certainty that two Sangams were held well before the Christian era and the third between 100 and 250 AD.
		The Tamil Sangam, which marks the Golden Age of Tamil literature, is the one major source of knowledge about the administration, art, architecture and economic conditions that existed then.
		This collection of poems is the earliest record of its kind as far as the history of the Tamils is concerned.
	www.indiaandindians.com /tamilnadu/tamil_nadu.php (255 words)

	Tamilar - Online Entertaniment portal for TamilNadu, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Food, Cusine, Holidays, ...
		Tamil is the language spoken by the people of Tamil Nadu.
		If culture is the distilled essence of the way of life of a people, then, in the case of the Tamil people, the distillation process has covered a time span of more than ten thousand years.
		The external manifestations of Tamil culture may be found in the songs and dances, in the cuisine and dress forms, in the customs and rituals of the Tamil people.
	www.tamilar.org (988 words)

	The legitimacy of the armed struggle of the Tamil people
		People either have great difficulty or find it completely impossible to continue with their employment and there is a severe shortage of food and basic necessities Many Tamils are daily fleeing across the Palk Straits to Southern India.
		The Tamils have resorted to arms to defend themselves and the war being waged by the Liberation Tigers is a defensive war.
		The legitimacy of the armed conflict of the people of Tamil Eelam was afforded open international recognition when the combatants in the armed conflict, participated in talks with a specially appointed Minister of the government of Sri Lanka at meetings convened by the Indian Government at Thimphu in 1985.
	www.eelam.com /introduction/legitimacy.html (1542 words)

	Tamil people at AllExperts
		The late MG Ramachandran, the Tamil film star, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and founder of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was an Indian born to Malayalee parents from Sri Lanka.
		Tamil literature is of considerable antiquity, and the language was recently recognised as a classical language by the government of India.
		Tamil sculpture is usually worked with bronze (using the lost wax technique) or stone (usually associated with temples), and surviving pieces date from the 7th century onwards.
	en.allexperts.com /e/t/ta/tamil_people.htm (5832 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Tamil people (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tamils have strong feelings towards the Tamil language, which is often venerated in literature as "tamil̲an̲n̲ai," "the Tamil mother." It has historically been, and to large extent still is, central to the Tamil identity (Ramaswamy 1998).
		Tamil literature is of considerable antiquity, and the language was recently recognised as a classical language by the government of India.
		Tamil sculpture is usually worked with bronze (using the lost wax technique) or stone (usually associated with temples), and surviving pieces date from the 7th century onwards.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Tamil_people (5819 words)

	Tamil People - Free English Encyclopedia from Turkcebilgi
		Unlike many [[ethnic group]]s, Tamils were not governed by a single political entity during most of their history; Tamilakam, the traditional name for the Tamil lands, was only politically united for a brief period between the 9th and 12th centuries under the Chola Empire.
		The late MG Ramachandran, the [Tamil film star, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and founder of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was an Indian born to Malayalee parents from Sri Lanka.
		Tamils have strong feelings towards the Tamil language, which is often venerated in literature as andquot;tamilandamp;#818;anandamp;#818;nandamp;#818;ai,andquot; andquot;the Tamil mother.andquot; It has historically been, and to large extent still is, central to the Tamil identity (Ramaswamy 1998).
	www.turkcebilgi.com /ansiklopedi/english/Tamil_people (6057 words)

	Tamil Eelam
		Apart from the right to self determination, the Tamil Eelam may also be justified in terms of international law under the concept of reversion of sovereignty and the concept of effectiveness.
		As the Tamil people sense of helplessness deepened, Tamil politicians advocated a separate Tamil state.
		At the general elections of 1977, the TULF demanded a clear mandate from the Tamil people to launch a national campaign to establish the sovereignty of the Tamil homeland.
	www.eelam.com /tamil_eelam.html (603 words)

	Tamil people information - Search.com
		The late MG Ramachandran, the Tamil film star, former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and founder of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, was an Indian born to Malayalee parents from Sri Lanka.
		Tamils have strong feelings towards the Tamil language, which is often venerated in literature as "tamil̲an̲n̲ai," "the Tamil mother." It has historically been, and to large extent still is, central to the Tamil identity (Ramaswamy 1998).
		Tamil sculpture is usually worked with bronze (using the lost wax technique) or stone (usually associated with temples), and surviving pieces date from the 7th century onwards.
	www.search.com /reference/Tamil_people (5996 words)

	Tamil History - தமிழ் வரலாறு, ...
		The response of a people to invasion by aliens from a foreign land is a measure of the depth of their roots and the strength of their identity.
		A Tamil version of the journal was edited by Maraimalai Atikal whose writings gave a new sense of cohesion to the Tamil people - a cohesion which was derived from the rediscovery of their ancient literature and the rediscovery of their ancient religion.
		The Sinhala people trace their origins in the island to the arrival of Prince Vijaya from India, around 500 B.C. and the Mahavamsa, the Sinhala chronicle of a later period (6th Century A.D.) records that Prince Vijaya arrived on the island on the same day that the Buddha attained Enlightenment in India.
	www.tamilnation.org /heritage/index.htm (5943 words)

	A brief History of Tamil People (by Prof. A. Velupillai)
		The early Tamil kAppijangkaL, (epics) are assigned to this age, as for examples, cilappatikAram, a Jaina epic and manhimEkaly, a Buddhist epic.
		Bhakti Period 600 A.D. to 1200 A. The Tamils were under the Pallava and the pAnhdija kingdoms during the earlier half of this period and under the cOLa Empire during the latter half of the same.
		Many of them are proud to claim Tamil as their language and they have made substantial contributions to the development of Tamil for more than six hundred years.
	tamilelibrary.org /teli/tamil.html (4358 words)

	"Horrendous consequences if peace process collapses"- TNA
		In the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, the Tamil people were subjected to terrorism, either sponsored or condoned by the State when they attempted to win their rights in a democratic, peaceful and non-violent way.
		Moderate Tamil political leaders and the Tamil people were deceived over several decades since independence and the LTTE is convinced that it history is not to be repeated its military strength must be sustained.
		Tamil speaking Tamil and Muslim people have borne and bearing the brunt of the deprivation and suffering.
	www.tamileelamnews.com /news/publish/tns_4349.shtml (2205 words)

	EelamWeb© - Our People
		The freedom struggle of Tamil Eelam is not limited to the people of Tamil Eelam alone.
		It is the responsibility of each Tamil world wide to ensure that the birth rights of the Tamils in Tamil Eelam are won to enable them to live in freedom and dignity.
		Realising this, the Tamil Diaspora is actively involved in various forms of non-violent activities to expose the dark and ugly face of Sri Lankan state terrorism.
	www.eelamweb.com /people (143 words)

	Tamilar :: An Athropological view - Online Entertainment portal for TamilNadu, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, ...
		Tamil language is a member of the Dravidian/ South Indian family of languages.
		The Tamil people are a South Asian community numbering more than seventy million and living mostly in Tamil Nadu state and neighbouring areas in south-eastern India (70 million), in the north and east of Sri Lanka (three million), in Malaysia (two million) and in Singapore (approx two hundred thousand).
		Nearly all Tamils speak the Tamil language, one of the Dravidian tongues once spoken widely across the Indian subcontinent but now largely confined to its southern quarter.
	www.tamilar.org /tamil-people.asp (542 words)

	Tamil Language
		People living in the Rajmahal mountains in Bengal and in the areas adjacent to Chota Nagpur are good examples of the intermingling.
		Tamil was the language of bureaucracy, of literati and of culture for several centuries in Kerala.
		There are twelve vowels in Tamil consisting of five short vowels, a, i, u, e, and o («, –, ¯, ±, ´); their corresponding five long vowels, aa, ii, uu, ee and oo (¬, ®, °, 2, µ) and two letters ai and au (3, ´Ç) for the prevention of hiatus.
	www.tamil.net /people/george/tamil.html (6055 words)

	Human rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although the document did not itself limit the power of the king in the Middle Ages, its later reinterpretation in the Elizabethean and Stuart periods established it as a powerful document on which constitutional law was founded in Britain and elsewhere.
		Commentators' positions in the argument for and against intervention and the use of force by states are influenced by whether they believe human rights are largely a legal or moral duty and whether they are of more cosmopolitan or nationalist persuasion.
		Some people believe human rights abuses are more common in dictatorships or theocracies than in democracies because freedom of speech and freedom of the press tend to uncover state orchestrated abuse and expose it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_rights (3918 words)

	Sri Lanka Human Rights Violations - Indictment against Sri Lanka - Ethnic Cleansing of Tamils
		When these attempts at ethnic cleansing were resisted by the Tamil people by non violent means and parliamentary struggle, Sinhala governments resorted to violence in 1956, in 1958, in 1961 and again in 1977 - a murderous violence directed to terrorise the Tamils into submission.
		Today, (in 2006) the President Rajapakse government seeks to pursue the Sinhala assimilative agenda by reneging on the 2002 Oslo Declaration, by refusing to recognise the existence of the Tamil homeland, and by perpetuating a Sri Lankan state structure within which the Tamil people may continue to be ruled by a permanent Sinhala majority.
		In the shadow of a ceasefire, they have raped, murdered Tamil Parliamentarians, Tamil journalists, executed Tamil students with impunity, arbitrarily arrested and detained Tamil civilians, abducted Tamil refugee workers, orchestrated attacks on Tamil civilians and Tamil shops, bombed Tamil civilian population centres and displaced thousands of Tamils from their homes.
	www.tamilnation.org /indictment (1501 words)

	TamilNet: Permit Tamil people to exercise their franchise - Australian MP
		It is particularly important that the Tamil people of the north-east, who have been deprived of their franchise during the last two decades, are permitted to cast their votes at the forthcoming elections," said John Murphy, Australian MP in a speech in the Australian Parliament Tuesday.
		It is particularly important that the Tamil people of the north-east, who have been deprived of their franchise during the last two decades, are permitted to cast their votes at the forthcoming elections.
		These Tamils are concerned that the peace process continue and the Tamil people in Sri Lanka be permitted to exercise their democratic rights.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=11553 (985 words)

	TamilBrisbane.com :: Tamil Speaking Community Portal - Brisbane - Queensland - Australia - Message of Sacrifice - 19 ...
		As war and pseudo-peace efforts alternate in the landscape of the Sri Lankan Tamil struggle for freedom and justice, it is pertinent to re-visit the heroism of this young Tamil leader and the message that he left us all in the wake of his struggle and death.
		The Tamil people, having learnt from their bitter experiences of the past, were not prepared to trust the Sinhala Government, but were relying on the intervention for the first time by a foreign nation, and a regional power at that.
		The young Tamil leader, Thileepan, took it upon himself to launch the non-violent, Gandhian struggle of a fast unto death, without even a drop of water, until the Tamil demands were met by the Indian authorities.
	www.tamilbrisbane.com /content/view/257/1 (1633 words)

	Tamil Nadu tourism, Tamil Nadu holidays, hotel bookings & package tours Tamilnadu India.
		Relatively unspoilt it is a home to the ancient Dravidian people who today consider themselves the only true Indians.
		Essentially the land of temples, Tamilnadu is the bastion of the Hindu culture in India and it is here that the Hindu temple architecture has reached its zenith.
		- Orissa - Punjab - Rajasthan - Sikkim - Tamil Nadu - Uttaranchal
	www.t2tamilnadu.com (467 words)

	south asian studies tamil people
		Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of the Indian subcontinent, is the cradle of the second oldest and second largest Indian literature and culture.
		Moreover, the Tamil language is the oldest attested member of the Dravidian family of languages, which is particularly predominant in Southern India." You will learn about a literary tradition 2000 years old plus a lot more in this online Tamil journal.
		In order to maintain their oppressive rule over the Tamil people the Sinhala occupation army has committed, and continue to commit, horrendous human rights violations in the form of murder/extra-judicial killings/disappearances/ rape /torture etc with impunity." You will find this site jam-packed with related materials.
	www.archaeolink.com /south_asian_studies_tamil_people.htm (309 words)

	Tamil groups and Politics of betrayal of the Tamil Nation's interests - TamilCanadian
		Whenever the Tamil people's liberation struggle has faced military hardship, some Tamil groups have engaged in malevolent attempts to weaken it, in the guise of political activity.
		Hence the despatching of these Tamil groups to Jaffna is a sinister ploy to conceal the military administration there with the mask of a civil one.
		By supporting her efforts and by supporting this plan as a wonderful peace plan, these Tamil groups are supporting Sinhala chauvinism and betraying the Tamil people's political aspirations.
	www.tamilcanadian.com /page.php?cat=&id=644 (572 words)

	Tamil Sydney - Downer and Ruddock misled by Sri Lankan High Commissioner on Tamil ethnic issue in Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We, the members of the Tamil community, are very concern that the recent concerted efforts by the Sri Lankan government to unduly influence the Australian Government to ban the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Australia.
		The Sri Lankan government sponsored terrorism is killing the Tamil people who honoured the non-violence and fought against injustice against the Tamils.
		Tamil people want to be the people of an independent, democratic, free and honourable country.
	www.tamilsydney.com /content/view/561/37 (1441 words)

	Tamil Sydney - Sri Lanka,Tamil:THE PEOPLE OF JAFFNA PENINSULA IN THE OPEN PRISON AND THE EFFECT OF ITS HUMAN MISERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tamil men in custody have allegedly been repeatedly beaten with batons, and security men throw chili powder into the eyes and on the genital organ of the detainees and cruelly torture them in a such way that they can not walk for some days.
		It is absurd on the part of India and sections of the international community while rejecting the LTTE and the MPs who were elected by the people of the Northeast and supporting non-LTTE Tamil groups as the 'democratic alternative', by suppressing the Tamil society by terror tactics of the military.
		For the ethnically oppressed minority Tamil people, liberation is about restoring the "invisible institution of morality" which is the true foundation of justice, equity, accountability and all the other cherished values of democratic society.
	www.tamilsydney.com /content/view/343/37 (1092 words)

	People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		One of the largest group of Tamils is in the country of Sri Lanka, which lies to the southeast of Tamil Nadu.
		The conflict between the Tamils and Singhalese in Sri Lanka and the history that goes with it is a vast topic.
		Tamils have a big enough presence in Singapore that Tamil is one of the official languages of that country.
	www.owlnet.rice.edu /~mukil/tamil/people.htm (522 words)

	Why Tamil Nadu?
		She also goes on to say that Auroville is not a Tamil village, and the residents of Auroville have to strive to be 'True Aurovilians'.
		But Tamil culture is one of the oldest known living cultures, and there is the need to link the Tamil population living across the globe.
		In this seminar, we invited people who were already familiar with the teachings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, and therefore invited people associated with the Sri Aurobindo Centres in various districts of Tamil Nadu.
	www.auroville.org /journals&media/avtoday/may_2003/tamil_heritage.htm (872 words)

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