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  2. R. K. Narayan - Wikipedia

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    Rasipuram Krishnaswami Narayanaswami (10 October 1906 – 13 May 2001), [1] better known as R. K. Narayan, was an Indian writer and novelist known for his work set in the fictional South Indian town of Malgudi. He was a leading author of early Indian literature in English along with Mulk Raj Anand and Raja Rao.

  3. South Asian literature - Wikipedia

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    South Asian literature has a long history, having some of the oldest recorded pieces of literature, dating back to the later stages of the Bronze Age in India.Transmitted in Sanskrit, Rig veda is an ancient and sacred collection of Hindu texts originally composed between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE by Indo-Aryan tribes that were migrating from modern Afghanistan to northern India. [3]

  4. Talk:Indian name - Wikipedia

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    Like the Telugu names, in general, the surname (mostly of a place, village, town etc.) is prevalent in the other Southern States too. For example, in Tamil Nadu : Arcot Lakshmanaswamy Mudaliar, Chetput Pattabhiraman Ramaswami Iyer, Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayan(aswami), Chakravarti Rajagopalachari, Madurai Subramanian Swamy, etc.

  5. Rasipuram - Wikipedia

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    Rasipuram is a Municipality in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and suburb of city of Salem located in Namakkal District. [1] It is the headquarters for the Rasipuram taluk . As of 2015, the town had a population of 88,584 and an area of 24 km 2 (9.3 sq mi).

  6. Category:Tamil films remade in other languages - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Tamil films remade in other languages" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 534 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  7. List of Sinhala words of Tamil origin - Wikipedia

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    Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...

  8. Patronymic - Wikipedia

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    Rasipuram is a toponym, and Krishnaswami Ayyar is a patronym. In Tamil Nadu, the patronymic naming convention diverges significantly from other regions of India, influenced by a social justice movement aimed at eliminating caste-based discrimination. Traditionally, many Indian states used patronyms or surnames to reflect familial heritage and ...

  9. Iyengar Tamil - Wikipedia

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    Iyengar Tamil (Tamil: ஐயங்கார் தமிழ்) is a dialect of the Tamil language spoken mostly in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, as well as other neighbouring regions of South India. It is spoken by the Iyengar community, a sect of Tamil Brahmins whose members adhere to Sri Vaishnavism . [ 1 ]