Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures)

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures) By Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | ISBN: 0810853795 | edition 2007 | PDF | 448 pages | 1,6 mb

The Tamils, like most other peoples in this series, do not occupy a specific country of their own, although they do inhabit one of the larger states in India, Tamil Nadu. This state, however, also includes persons who would not regard themselves particularly as Tamil, while many who do live in other parts of India or, indeed, abroad in a huge diaspora spread about Asia and also much farther afield, regard themselves as Tamil to one extent or another. Depending on the definition—and none is really adequate—there may be 70 or 80 million Tamils, since the feeling of being Tamil is more cultural than political to date, and, unlike many other peoples, they do not share the same religion.

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