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Tamil Nadu is a major centre for music, art and dance in India. [297] Chennai is called the cultural capital of South India. [298] In the Sangam era, art forms were classified into: iyal (poetry), isai (music) and nadakam (drama). [299] Bharatanatyam is a classical dance form that originated in Tamil Nadu and is one of the oldest dances of India.
Tamil Nadu Day, also referred to as Tamil Nadu Dhinam, is a holiday celebrated in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu to commemorate the formation of the state. Tamil Nadu was created on 1 November 1956 with the name Madras State. On 18 July 1967, Madras State was officially renamed to Tamil Nadu.
Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai (15 September 1909 – 3 February 1969), popularly known as Anna, also known as Perarignar Anna (Anna, the scholar or Elder Brother), was an Indian politician, founder and first general secretary of the political party Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) [2] in the present-day Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who served as the fourth and last Chief Minister of Madras ...
The east coast of Tamil Nadu was one of the areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, during which almost 8000 people died in the disaster. [112] The sixth most populous state in the Indian Union, Tamil Nadu was the seventh-largest economy in 2005 among the states of India. [113]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 January 2025. Dravidian ethnolinguistic group Ethnic group Tamils Tamilar Total population c. 77 million Regions with significant populations India 69,026,881 (2011) Sri Lanka 3,108,770 (2012) Malaysia 1,800,000 (2016) United States 238,699+ (2017) Canada 237,890 (2021) [note 2] Singapore 174,708 ...
Madras State was a state of India which was in existence during the mid-20th century. The state came into existence on 26 January 1950 when the Constitution of India was adopted and included the present-day Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of neighbouring states of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
By the late 1960, the political parties who were espousing Dravidian ideologies gained power only within the state of Tamil Nadu. [14] [15] Since the 1969 election victory of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) under C N Annadurai, Tamil nationalism has been a permanent feature of the government of Tamil Nadu. The DMK came to power positively on ...
The region of Tamil Nadu indicates historical records of human habitation at least for 3,800 years.The current state of Tamil Nadu was formed by renaming Madras State on 14 January 1969.After the independence of India, the Telugu and Malayalam parts of Madras state were separated from Tamilagam state in 1956, it was renamed Tamil Nadu on January 14, 1969, by the state government.