Dravidian people | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-17

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Dravidian people


00:01:29 1 Etymology
00:04:22 2 Origins
00:06:07 2.1 Ancestral components
00:07:47 2.2 Proposed agricultural origins
00:10:41 3 History
00:10:49 3.1 Indus Valley Civilization
00:10:59 3.1.1 Dravidian identification
00:12:42 3.1.2 Decline, migration and Dravidianization
00:13:31 3.1.3 Dravidian and Indo-Aryan interactions
00:15:59 3.2 Sanskritization
00:16:20 4 Dravidian culture
00:16:29 4.1 Language
00:18:49 4.2 Religious belief
00:23:06 4.3 Architecture and visual art
00:25:50 4.4 Theatre, dance and music
00:27:32 4.5 Costume
00:27:50 4.6 Martial arts and sports
00:28:52 4.6.1 Traditional weapons
00:29:03 4.7 Ethnic groups
00:29:32 4.7.1 List of Dravidian people based on population
00:29:42 5 See also



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Dravidians are speakers of any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 245 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. They form the majority of the population of South India. Dravidian-speaking people are natively found in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan,  the Maldives, and Sri Lanka.The third century BCE onwards saw the development of large Dravidian empires like Chera, Chola, Pandyan, Rashtrakuta, Satavahana, Vijayanagara, Pallava, Chalukya, Hoysala and smaller kingdoms like Ay, Alupa, Western Ganga, Eastern Ganga, Kadamba, Kalabhra, Andhra Ikshvaku, Vishnukundina, Western Chalukya, Eastern Chalukya, Sena, Kakatiya, Reddy, Mysore, Jaffna, Travancore, Venad, Cochin, Cannanore, Calicut and the Nayakas.
Medieval Tamil guilds and trading organisations like the "Ayyavole and Manigramam" played an important role in the Southeast Asia trade. Traders and religious leaders travelled to Southeast Asia and played an important role in the cultural Indianisation of the region. Locally developed scripts such as Grantha and Pallava script induced the development of many native scripts such as Khmer, Javanese Kawi script, Baybayin, and Thai.
Dravidian visual art is dominated by stylised Temple architecture in major centres, and the production of images of stone and bronze sculptures. The  sculptures dating from the Chola period has become notable as a symbol of Hinduism.