Who Are The Tamil People
Sign up for an annual Curiositystream subscription with 41% off and you'll also get free access to Nebula (a new streaming platform I'm helping to build along with other creators). curiositystream.com/cogito Today there are 80 million Tamils in the world, more than there are French, Colombians, or Kenyans. Most Tamils live in North and East Sri Lanka and in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, literally Tamil country. Tamil Nadu is now a state in India but for thousands of years Tamilakam or the homeland of the Tamils was much larger, and ruled by independent kingdoms. Tamil culture is the last surviving classical civilisation because they have preserved their beliefs, culture, and language intact for 2000 years. But who are the Tamils, what is their story, and what does it have to do with 700 billion golden coconuts. Well Let's Find Out. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE. www.patreon.com/CogitoEdu Follow me on twitter twitter.com/CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT MERCHANDISE teespring.com/stores/cogito-store Go checkout nebula.app/cogito Who Are The Sami People? | youtu.be/_6sQPJvGaO0 What Is Islam? | youtu.be/XlvEymU-S4o Who Are The Māori People Of New Zealand? | youtu.be/Nw81to_XmXM What Is Taoism? | youtu.be/U6hslRjGaww What Is A Cult? youtu.be/QUHNKCkXYes History Of Tea | youtu.be/6S0hlv5sUbw What Was The Indus Valley Civilisation? | youtu.be/rlONwxT9Nlc What Is Judaism | youtu.be/0VAylWxDQfk Who Are The San Bushmen? | youtu.be/1oQ5Jd7p2aY What Is Zoroastrianism? | youtu.be/hl9QgeHdKYk What Is Hinduism? youtu.be/xlBEEuYIWwY What Is Sikhism? youtu.be/L-1UAORcX4c Sources and Further Reading: COOKBOOK - www.gutenberg.org/files/29728/29728-h/29728-h.htm#Page_2 Pliny the Roman Dude - www.attalus.org/translate/pliny_hn6b.html and www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0137%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D26 Temple - www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2015/11/13/a-one-trillion-dollar-hidden-treasure-chamber-is-discovered-at-indias-sree-padmanabhaswam-temple/ Logathasan Tharmathurai - The Sadness of Geography My Life as a Tamil Exile India A History Revised and Updated by John Keay A History of India by Hermann Kulke Dietmar Rothermund A History of Sri Lanka by De Silva, Kingsley M The Story of India - Micheal Wood History of Indian Literature, Volume X Dravidian Literature, Kamil V. Zvelebil Jan Gonda (Editor) Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics - Takanobu Takahashi The Dravidian Languages - Sanford B. Steever Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I Commercial Structures and Exchanges - Angela Schottenhammer The New Cambridge History of India Vijayanagara - Burton Stein The Laws and Customs of the Tamils of Jaffna - H.W.Tambiah Historical Dictionary of the Tamils - Vijaya Ramaswamy The World of the Tamil Merchant - Kanakalatha Mukund (This one was fun) Noboru Karashima - A Concise History of South India_ Issues and Interpretations Ramachandra Dikshitar V.R. - Studies in Tamil Literature and History Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta - History of South India _ From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta - The Culture and History of the Tamils Tamil by David Shulman The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age by Romesh Chunder Dutt timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Transgender-people-throng-Koovagam-village-in-Tamil-Nadu-to-attend-Koothandavar-temple-fest/articleshow/35027587.cms www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/keeladi-findings-traceable-to-6th-century-bce-report/article29461583.ece www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/tamil-genocide-losing-santhia-ben-hillier www.abc.net.au/news/2009-05-20/up-to-100000-killed-in-sri-lankas-civil-war-un/1689524 qz.com/india/1166083/temples-merchants-and-ships-the-flourishing-tamil-economy-some-800-years-ago/ Tamils and the meaning of history - Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam DOI: 10.1080/09584939408719724 Ritual Polity and Economy: The Transactional Network of an Imperial Temple in Medieval South India - James Heitzman - www.jstor.org/stable/3632277 “Who are we without the war?”: The evolution of the Tamil ethnic identity in post-conflict Sri Lanka DOI: 10.1177/1468796819846960 #Tamil #Dravidian #SouthIndia #India #Tamizh Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator Video/Images provided by Getty Images, AP Archive and Archive.org
