The Story of India: South India

Tamil House

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• Tamil House
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• Tamils have been called the last surviving classical civilisation on earth.

Inheritors of religious and cultural traditions going back to the Iron Age, the Tamils have a classical literature older and richer than most European countries. Their earliest works date from the third century BC.

In India's tropical deep south, the Tamils have tenaciously maintained the older forms of their civilisation, while at the same time taking on board modernity and globalisation.