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Today there are 80 million Tamils in the world, more than there are French, Colombians, or Kenyans. Most Tamils live in North and East Sri Lanka and in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, literally Tamil country. Tamil Nadu is now a state in India but for thousands of years Tamilakam or the homeland of the Tamils was much larger, and ruled by independent kingdoms. Tamil culture is the last surviving classical civilisation because they have preserved their beliefs, culture, and language intact for 2000 years.

But who are the Tamils, what is their story, and what does it have to do with 700 billion golden coconuts. Well Let's Find Out.

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Sources and Further Reading:

COOKBOOK - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29728...

Pliny the Roman Dude -
http://www.attalus.org/translate/plin...
and
https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/...

Temple - https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobso...

Logathasan Tharmathurai - The Sadness of Geography My Life as a Tamil Exile
India A History Revised and Updated by John Keay
A History of India by Hermann Kulke Dietmar Rothermund
A History of Sri Lanka by De Silva, Kingsley M
The Story of India - Micheal Wood
History of Indian Literature, Volume X Dravidian Literature, Kamil V. Zvelebil Jan Gonda (Editor)
Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics - Takanobu Takahashi
The Dravidian Languages - Sanford B. Steever
Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I Commercial Structures and Exchanges - Angela Schottenhammer
The New Cambridge History of India Vijayanagara - Burton Stein
The Laws and Customs of the Tamils of Jaffna - H.W.Tambiah
Historical Dictionary of the Tamils - Vijaya Ramaswamy
The World of the Tamil Merchant - Kanakalatha Mukund (This one was fun)
Noboru Karashima - A Concise History of South India_ Issues and Interpretations
Ramachandra Dikshitar V.R. - Studies in Tamil Literature and History
Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta - History of South India _ From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar
Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta - The Culture and History of the Tamils
Tamil by David Shulman
The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age by Romesh Chunder Dutt

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/i...
https://www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/10/ta...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-05-2...
https://qz.com/india/1166083/temples-...

Tamils and the meaning of history - Dagmar Hellmann-Rajanayagam DOI: 10.1080/09584939408719724
Ritual Polity and Economy: The Transactional Network of an Imperial Temple in Medieval South India - James Heitzman - http://www.jstor.org/stable/3632277
“Who are we without the war?”: The evolution of the Tamil ethnic identity in post-conflict Sri Lanka DOI: 10.1177/1468796819846960

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