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
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Brahmanical legends refer to the strong and wealthy cities on or near the banks of
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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
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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.
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DR.GRIERS
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P. T. SRINIVASA AIYANGAR
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TAMIL COMMUNITY IN
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QUALITIES OF THE TAMILS
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The Tamil community has been associated with the history of modem
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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.
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ONG PANG BOON
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LEE KUAN YEW
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TAMILS IN
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OLD CIVILIZATION
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The punch marked coins of an early era point to connections that
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As
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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
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H.G. WELLS
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