Tamil people

The Tamil people are an ethnic group from South Asia with a recorded history going back more than two millennia. The oldest Tamil communities are those of southern India and northeastern Sri Lanka. There are also a number of Tamil emigrant communities scattered around the world, especially in Malaysia, Singapore, Fiji, Mauritius, and South Africa, with more recent emigrants also found in Australia, Canada, and parts of Europe.

References

• Bowers, F. (1956). Theatre in the East - A Survey of Asian Dance and Drama. New York: Grove Press.
• Casson, L. (1989). The Periplus Maris Erythraei: Text with Introduction, Translation and Commentary. Princeton, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691040605.
• Chaitanya, Krishna (1971). A history of Malayalam literature. New Delhi: Orient Longman. ISBN 8125004882.
• Coomaraswamy, A.K. (1946). Figures of Speech or Figures of Thought. London: Luzac & Co.
• Gadgil, M. & Joshi, N.V. & Shambu Prasad, U.V. & Manoharan, S. & Patil, S. (1997). "Peopling of India." In D. Balasubramanian and N. Appaji Rao (eds.), The Indian Human Heritage, pp.100-129. Hyderabad: Universities Press. ISBN 8173711283.
• Hart, G.L. (1975). The Poems of Ancient Tamil: Their Milieu and their Sanskrit Counterparts. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520026721.
• Hart, G.L. (1979). "The Nature of Tamil Devotion." In M.M. Deshpande and P.E. Hook (eds.), Aryan and Non-Aryan in India, pp. 11-33. Michigan: Ann Arbor. ISBN 0891480145.
• Hart, G.L. (1987). "Early Evidence for Caste in South India." In P. Hockings (ed.), Dimesions of Social Life: Essays in honor of David B. Mandelbaum. Berlin: Mouton Gruyter.
• Mahadevan, Iravatham (2003). Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674012275.
• Parpola, Asko (1974). "On the protohistory of the Indian languages in the light of archaeological, linguistic and religious evidence: An attempt at integration." In van Lohuizen, J.E. de Leeuw & Ubaghs, J.M.M. (eds.), South Asian Archaeology 1973, pp. 90-100. Leiden: E.J. Brill.
• Parpola, Asko (2003). Deciphering the Indus script (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521795664.
• Pillai, Suresh B. (1976). Introduction to the study of temple art. Thanjavur: Equator and Meridian.
• Ramaswamy, Sumathi (1998). Passions of the Tongue: language devotion in Tamil India 1891-1970. Delhi: Munshiram. ISBN 8121508517.
• Sastri, K.S. Ramaswamy (2002). The Tamils: The People, Their History and Culture, Vol. 1: An Introduction to Tamil History and Society. New Delhi: Cosmo Publications. ISBN 8177554069.
• Sharma, Manorama (2004). Folk India: A Comprehensive Study of Indian Folk Music and Culture, Vol. 11: Tamil Nadu and Kerala. New Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan. ISBN 8175741414.
• Sivaram, Rama (1994). Early Chola Art: Origin and Emergence of Style. New Delhi: Navrang. ISBN 8170130794.
• {{Citenewsauthor | surname=Subramanian | given=T.S. | title=`Rudimentary Tamil-Brahmi script' unearthed at Adichanallur | date=16 Feb 2005 | org=The Hindu | url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/02/17/stories/2005021704471300.htm}}
• Suryanarayan, V. (2001). "In search of a new identity", Frontline 18(2).
• Swaminatha Iyer, S.S. (1910). A Brief History of the Tamil Country, Part 1: The Cholas. Tanjore: G.S. Maniya.
• Varadpande, M.L. (1992). Loka Ranga: Panorama of Indian Folk Theatre. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. ISBN 8170172780.
• Wells, Spencer (2002). The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey. Princeton University Press.
• Zvebil, K. (1974). The Smile of Murugan: On Tamil Literature of South India. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9004035915.

Population data

All population data has been taken from Ethnologue, with the exception of the data for Sri Lanka, which was taken from the CIA World Factbook's Sri Lanka page.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~