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What is the status of Tamils in Sri Lanka?
Today, they constitute a majority in the Northern Province, live in significant numbers in the Eastern Province and are in the minority throughout the rest of the country. 70\% of Sri Lankan Tamils in Sri Lanka live in the Northern and Eastern provinces.
Are malayalees Dravidian?
The Malayalis are a group of people of mixed ethnic heritage who speak Malayalam, a Dravidian language; they constitute the majority of the population of Kerala. Most Malayalis are descendants of the early inhabitants of India, the so-called Dravidians (speakers of Dravidian languages), who were driven…
What does the name Viswanathan mean?
lord of the universe
Indian (Kerala, Tamil Nadu): Hindu name from Sanskrit višvanatha ‘lord of the universe’ (from višva ‘universe’ + natha ‘lord’, an epithet of the god Shiva), + the Tamil-Malayalam third-person masculine singular suffix -n.
What is it like to be a dark skinned woman in Tamil?
A common thing among Tamil society is also that dark skinned means “low caste”. Although since being dark skinned is associated to be “pure Tamil”, are many Tamil men proud of being dark skinned. But this is not true for Tamil women. Tamil dark skinned women are seen as ugly in the Tamil society.
Why are some Indians lighter in colour than others?
There is a specific gene present in the Indian subcontinent that determines how light your skin colour is. Every Indian has this to varying degrees. It just flares up randomly in some and not others. It doesn’t really matter what ethnicity you are from. Some ethnicities may have higher chances of being darker or lighter but in the end.
What is the ancestry of Tamil Brahmins in Tamil Nadu?
Tamil Brahmins have Ancestral North Indian DNA. The Brahacharnam (Great Migration) Brahmins migrated from Uttar Pradesh to Tamil Nadu in the 950s AD and became the priests and military advisers of Parantaka Chola II and Raja Raja Chola. Since then we have been in Tamil Nadu and even mixed with Tamils a little (mostly through the mitochondrial DNA).