The political state of Tamil Nadu in India was created in 1969 when erstwhile Madras State was renamed. The trauma of the partition did not impact Tamil Nadu when India was granted Independence in 1947. There was no sectarian violence against various religions.

Jan 31, 2025 · The history of Tamil Nadu begins with the establishment of three Tamil powers in the southern part of the Indian subcontinent: the Chera, Chola, and Pandya kingdoms. The earliest mention of these kingdoms is of the Pandyas, which appears in …

Historically, the Tamilakam region was inhabited by Tamil-speaking Dravidian people, who were ruled by several regimes over centuries such as the Sangam era triumvirate of the Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas, the Pallavas (3rd–9th century CE), and the later Vijayanagara Empire (14th–17th century CE).

The State of Tamil Nadu has a hoary antiquity. Though early sangam classics throw historical references, we pass to recorded history only from the Pallavas. The southern states of India were under the hegemony of the Cholas, the Cheras and the Pandyas for centuries.

The following is a chronological overview of the history of the Tamil people, who trace their ancestry to the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, the Indian union territory of Puducherry, the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka and the Puttalam District of Sri Lanka.

The political state of Tamil Nadu in India was created in 1969 instead of the former Madras State. The history of Tamil Nadu goes back to the early Stone Age. Tamil Nadu (now one of the states in the south of the Republic of India) has been under …

1938-E.V. Ramasamy Naicker organises a separatist agitation demanding Dravidanadu consisting of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala; 1941-Indian Muslim League holds its congress in Madras. Muhammad Ali Jinnah delivers keynote speech

While examining Tamil history, historians examine literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic sources. The foremost source of ancient Tamil history is the Sangam literature, generally dated to the last centuries BCE to early centuries CE. The unit will examine the various sources of Tamil history in detail.

Jan 25, 2025 · The findings were produced in a report titled ‘Antiquity of Iron: Recent Radiometric Dates from Tamil Nadu’, authored by K Rajan and R Sivanantham. Rajan is a professor at the Department of History in Pondicherry University, and Sivanantham is joint director of the Tamil Nadu State Department of Archaeology.

Aug 22, 2023 · Dr. Nagaswamy’s book, Tamil Nadu, the Land of the Vedas, is a scholarly work presented in twenty chapters covering Vedic life, devotional, philosophical, and worldly literature, inscriptions, shastras, and records of kings and their administrations.