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... Dravidian and the people speaking them Dravidians . Sanskrit pundits think that Dravida is a corruption of a sanskritised form of Tamil . The origin of the word Tamil derives from the root TAMI ( lonely ) and believes that Tamil means ...
... Dravidian and the people speaking them Dravidians . Sanskrit pundits think that Dravida is a corruption of a sanskritised form of Tamil . The origin of the word Tamil derives from the root TAMI ( lonely ) and believes that Tamil means ...
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... Dravidians the Kolarians and the Dravidian people . The former entered India by the North - east and occupied the Northern portion of the Vindhya table land . There they were conquered and split into fragments by the main body of Dravidians ...
... Dravidians the Kolarians and the Dravidian people . The former entered India by the North - east and occupied the Northern portion of the Vindhya table land . There they were conquered and split into fragments by the main body of Dravidians ...
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... Dravidian Vellalas for fear of injuring the feelings of the Tamil Kings and the Velir nobility . They thus contrived a method of classification that would meet their ends by classifying people on the nature of the soil or region in ...
... Dravidian Vellalas for fear of injuring the feelings of the Tamil Kings and the Velir nobility . They thus contrived a method of classification that would meet their ends by classifying people on the nature of the soil or region in ...
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