Tamil nationalism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-18

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Tamil nationalism


00:01:04 1 Sri Lanka
00:04:06 2 India
00:10:27 3 Linguistic purism
00:10:36 3.1 History
00:12:35 3.2 Basis in pre-modern literature
00:14:38 4 See also



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Tamil nationalism  is the ideology which asserts that the  Tamil people constitute a nation and promotes the cultural unity of Tamil people. Tamil nationalism is primarily a secular nationalism, that focus on language and homeland. It expresses itself in the form of linguistic purism ("Pure Tamil"), nationalism and irredentism ("Tamil Eelam"), Social equality ("Self-Respect Movement") and Tamil Renaissance.
Tamils are one of the oldest civilisations in the world with a rich culture and language. Originally, Tamil people ruled in Tamilakam and parts of Sri Lanka. During the colonial period, the Tamil areas came under the rule of British India and Ceylon. This saw the end of the sovereignty of Tamils and reduced them to minority status under a political model implemented during the British Raj. Since the independence of India and Sri Lanka, Tamil separatist movements have been actively suppressed in both countries.A famous quote by Tamil poet Kannadasan about the Tamils as a stateless nation.