Map of the Dravidian languages in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nepal. Languages present in thedataset used in this paper are indicated by name, with languages with long (950+ years) literatures in ...

The TVK’s rise has relegated the DMK to main Opposition status and left the AIADMK floundering. But this electoral recasting does not mean an end to Tamil Nadu’s deep-rooted Dravidian politics. Here's ...

CHENNAI, India, June 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a landmark gesture connecting global academia with Tamil Nadu’s legacy of social justice, noted technology entrepreneur and Founder of Populus ...

At a time when the debate on the Dravidian-Aryan division dominates the political narrative in India, particularly in Tamil Nadu, historian K.A. Nilakanta Sastri observed that the Dravidians as well ...

Last week, veteran actor Kamal Haasan courted controversy by declaring that “Kannada was born out of Tamil.” The question of which Indian language is oldest—and, by extension, most native to the ...

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"Hinduism was never born; it emerged, evolved, and absorbed." Hinduism is not a book you can open to page one and say, “Here it all began.” It’s a river, vast and deep, carrying whispers of ...

The Dravidian language family, varieties of which are spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, is crucial in understanding the prehistory not only of the subcontinent but of Eurasia as a whole ...

The origin of the Dravidian language family, consisting of about 80 varieties spoken by 220 million people across South Asia, can be dated to about 4,500 years ago, based on new linguistic analyses.