page_title: Tamil nationalism
hierarchical_section_title: Tamil nationalism
caption_attribution_description: தமிழ்: Tamilnadu government will be announced tamil vallka light board
context_page_description: 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, nationalism and irredentism, Social equality and Tamil Renaissance.
  Historically, Tamil people ruled over southeastern India and in the northern 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: "There is no state without Tamils, there is no state for the Tamils."
context_section_description: 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.
  Historically, Tamil people ruled over southeastern India and in the northern 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: "There is no state without Tamils, there is no state for the Tamils."
caption: A lightboard that reads Long live Tamil (Tamil Valga in Tamil) outside a public building in Tamil Nadu.
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