Tamil cinema has played a vital role in Dravidian politics in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Films have been influential in Indian politics since...

Dravidian parties include an array of regional political parties in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, which trace their origins and ideologies either directly...

cinema Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics, regional politics in India Kollywood (disambiguation), informal name for the Indian Tamil-language film industry...

List of Tamil actors List of Tamil film actors List of Tamil film actresses List of Tamil music directors Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics List of...

society. By the late 1960s, the political parties who were espousing Dravidian ideology gained power within the state of Tamil Nadu. The Sixteenth Amendment...

15919 standard. Tamil (தமிழ், Tamiḻ, pronounced [t̪amiɻ] ) is a Dravidian language natively spoken by the Tamil people of South Asia. Tamil is an official...

controversy @earth Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics Vladimir Nabokov (1981) Lectures on Russian Literature, lecture on Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers,...

Karunanidhi, M. G. Ramachandran, and J. Jayalalithaa, is set against the backdrop of cinema and politics in Tamil Nadu. It stars an ensemble cast including...

Government in 1995. Tamil cinema is influenced by Dravidian politics and has a tradition of addressing social issues. Many of Tamil Nadu's prominent Chief...

the rise of Dravidian politics as well as the introduction of new mass communications and lithographic technologies. The world's first Tamil Islamic Literature...

Institute. p. 61. ISBN 0-8223-0766-9. K. Nambi Arooran (1980). Tamil renaissance and Dravidian nationalism, 1905–1944. p. 37. Rajaraman 1988, ch. 2 (The Genesis...

 National Progressive Dravidian Federation; abbr. DMDK) is an Indian regional political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. It is a Dravidian party founded by...

sowing the seeds for the Dravidian movements. During the 1920s, two movements focused mainly on regional politics began in Tamil Nadu. One was the Justice...

languages of northern India. The Tamil language preserves many features of Proto-Dravidian, though modern-day spoken Tamil in Tamil Nadu freely uses loanwords...

Anna Dravidian Progressive Federation; abbr. AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union...

Kazhagam (Tamil pronunciation: [t̪iɾaːʋiɖɐ munːeːtrɐk kɐɻɐɡɐm]; transl. Dravidian Progressive Federation; abbr. DMK) is an Indian political party based...

by Tamil-speaking Dravidian people and was ruled by several regimes over centuries, such as the Sangam era triumverate of the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas...

Shaivism,), Dravidian folk religion, Jains and Buddhists have coexisted in Tamil country since at least the second century BCE. Sources of ancient Tamil history...

Tamilians, or simply Tamils (/ˈtæmɪlz, ˈtɑː-/ TAM-ilz, TAHM-), are a Dravidian ethnolinguistic group who natively speak the Tamil language and trace their ancestry...

Dravidian parties rose to power and prominence in the political stage of Tamil Nadu, a state in India, in the 1960s. The rise in power and political support...

Kazhagam (transl. Renaissance Dravidian Progressive Federation; abbr. MDMK) is a political party active in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was established...

about 62% of the 10,167 cinema theatres in India. For the financial year of 2013, the combined net box office revenue of Tamil and Telugu film industries...

By the late 1960, the political parties who were espousing Dravidian ideologies gained power only within the state of Tamil Nadu. Since the 1969 election...

Kazhagam and formed their own party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam. Tamil cinema has been used extensively for propaganda for Dravidian politics. Although...

Sri Lankan Tamils (Tamil: இலங்கை தமிழர், ilankai tamiḻar or ஈழத் தமிழர், īḻat tamiḻar), also known as Ceylon Tamils or Eelam Tamils, are Tamils native to...

Tamils today is a fusion of Vedic and Dravidian traditions. There are notable population of Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka and in Indian states of Tamil Nadu...

Dravidian languages, Tamil numerals influenced and shaped the numerals of the others in the family. The following table compares the main Dravidian languages...

movies. He was the first politician from the Dravidian parties to use Tamil cinema extensively for political propaganda. Born in a middle-class family,...

its logo. Portrayal of Tamil Brahmins in popular media Tamil cinema and Dravidian politics The exchange rate between 1948 and 1966 was 4.79 Indian rupees...

Tamil settlement of Sri Lanka refers to the settlement of Tamils, or other Dravidian peoples, from Southern India to Sri Lanka. Due to Sri Lanka's close...