the Pure Tamil Movement) is attributed to Maraimalai Adigal, who publicly pledged to defend pure Tamil in 1916. Advocates of purism popularised Tamil literature...

period, culminating in the 20th century in a movement called taṉit tamiḻ iyakkam (meaning "pure Tamil movement"), led by Parithimaar Kalaignar and Maraimalai...

Subramaniya Siva (Tamil: சுப்பிரமணிய சிவா) (4 October 1884 – 23 July 1925) was an Indian freedom fighter, writer and pure Tamil movement activist during...

Adigal (15 July 1876 – 15 September 1950) was a Tamil orator and writer and father of Pure Tamil movement. He was a fervent Tamizh Saivite. He wrote more...

linguistic purism ("Pure Tamil"), nationalism and irredentism ("Tamil Eelam"), Social equality ("Self-Respect Movement") and Tamil Renaissance. Since the...

with the rise of the Pure Tamil Movement and the entry of Dravidian ideologues into Tamil cinema in the 1950s, Brahmin Tamil was gradually displaced...

Adigal (Nagai Vedachalam Pillai, 1876–1950), eminent Tamil orator and writer, started Pure Tamil movement Tanittamil Iyakkam Marimutha Pillai (1712–1787),...

over 35 research volumes on Tamil language and literature. Additionally, he was a staunch proponent of the "Pure Tamil movement" and initiated the Etymological...

language since 1947 Tanittamil Iyakkam (Pure Tamil Movement), a linguistic purism movement for the Tamil language, to ignore the loanwords borrowed from...

strong relationships with political parties in South India, such as Pure Tamil Movement (led by Perunchithiranar), Dravidar Kazhagam (led by K. Veeramani)...

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Extended-Tamil script or Tamil-Grantha refers to a script used to write the Tamil language before the 20th century Tamil purist movement. Tamil-Grantha...

Bharathidasan (Tamil: பாரதிதாசன்). A twentieth century Tamil poet, Bharathidasan was an active participant in the Indian independence movement, he opposed...

century, culminating in the Pure Tamil Movement which called for removal of all Sanskritic and other foreign elements from Tamil. It received some support...

changed his name to Anbazhagan and being influenced by the Pure Tamil Movement led by Tamil scholar Maraimalai Adigal. In 1942, he addressed a Justice...

in Tamil Nadu include Vaiko, the founder of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK), Perinchintanarayana, leader of the Pure Tamil Movement and...

Sri Lankan Tamil. As a result of the Pure Tamil Movement, Indian Tamil tends to avoid loanwords to a greater extent than Sri Lankan Tamil. Coinages of...

attempt to "foist their system on the Tamils". Hindu savant Maraimalai Adigal who founded the Pure Tamil Movement, in a book called Vellalar Nagareegam...

Rajasthan has Jagadguru Ramanandacharya Rajasthan Sanskrit University. Tamil Nadu has many Sanskrit institutes, including the Madras Sanskrit College...

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Tamil Maanila Congress (Moopanar) (transl. Tamil State Congress (Moopanar); abbr. TMC(M)) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil...

as "Pavalareru" Perunchithiranar, was a Pure Tamil scholar, poet, journalist, and political activist from Tamil Nadu, India. In a writing career that spanned...

The Nepali Language Movement (Nepali: नेपाली भाषा आन्दोलन) was a political movement in the Republic of India advocating the recognition of the Nepali...

Tamil Development and Vice-Chairman of Adult Education Board. Nannan was an ardent supporter of the Self Respect Movement and the Pure Tamil Movement...

Bharathi ( great tamil poet) Kothamangalam Subbu (Tamil poet,lyricst, author) Subramaniya Siva (Tamil Writer and Pure Tamil Movement Activist) Singh,...

new bridge is named after Maraimalai Adigal, a Tamil writer and proponent of the Pure Tamil movement. Uscan's construction of the bridge is commemorated...

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(Mahabharata) Anti-Hindi agitations of Tamil Nadu Pure Tamil movement, a movement of linguistic purism of Tamil language attempting to avoid loanwords...

restricted Shaiva Siddhanta to the south where it was preserved with the Tamil Shaiva movement expressed in the bhakti poetry of the Nayanars. It is in this historical...

the Tamil devotional poems written by Alvars (sages of Vaishnavism) and Nayanmars (sages of Shaivism) and, heralded the great Bhakti movement which...