Dravidianist Movement

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Post 103:
Thanks Solomon.

If it's not any trouble, could you please repost the following. I'd like to save it and add it to my archive of information related to India. At present, the following crucial paragraph shows an unintelligible font instead of Tamizh (or other language's) characters.<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->For the benefit of friends, earlier some Scholars tried to claim that Nanmarais referred to Tamil – அறம், பொருள், இன்பம் மற்றும் வீடு, but all this fell flat when TholKappiayam was shown
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Separate matter. About this paragraph:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Nilakanta Sastri goes a step further and opines,
“There does not exist a single line of Tamil literature written before the Tamils came into contact with, and let us add accepted with genuine appreciation, the Indo-Aryan culture of North Indian origin.”<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Nilakanta Sastri obviously did not question the Oryans or even the AIT, so his explanation incorporates them. I think such explanations ought to be revisited based on what we today know did not happen (AIT). And in that case, I think we may turn back to what we traditionally knew about our country and its beliefs (Sanatana Dharma).

Without presupposing the AIT or existence of Oryans, the case becomes simpler. Ancient Hindu Tamils eventually received Vedic knowledge which had passed South from the Northwest where the Vedas were composed. (All other areas of India only got the Vedas from the NW anyway, so in this matter, time is all that separates the inundation of various regions of India with the Vedas). Later, much after the incorporation of Vedic knowledge, Tamils started writing the literature down. By this time the Vedic Hindu elements had long become part of the older Hindu traditions that Tamil Nadu (and the rest of India) already had.