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In ' The Tamils ', Nirmala Lakshman blends history, research, and personal insight to offer a rich, expansive look at Tamil society and culture. Photo: Thamotharan B
While Nirmala admits that her study is more personal than academic, given that available records and literature don’t provide a complete historical picture, her narrative is nonetheless fascinating. By uncovering lost literary works, rediscovered in the 19th century, Nirmala unveils the remarkable brilliance of Tamil civilisation. Through these methods, she successfully captures the heart of Tamil history, language, philosophy, and culture with incredible detail.
Nirmala highlights that these writings were not only created by renowned poet-scholars but also by a diverse range of people, including, women, siddhas, priests, chieftains, peasants, merchants, warriors, and even potters and blacksmiths. She notes that the philosophies shaping Tamil society ranged from the devotion found in Bhakti poetry of Hinduism to Jain and Buddhist thought, embracing other religions, and even extending to the atheism of figures like Periyar and the Dravidian ideology.
Nirmala writes that even in the proto-historic period, Tamils were literate and had developed a script. The patronage of Tamil rulers, such as the Cheras, Cholas, Pandyas and Pallavas, spanning from the third century BCE to the late 13th century CE, left an indelible mark on the community’s language, art, architecture, literature, music, and dance.
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