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Dravida Murasu
{A Compilation of Essays on Dravidian
Values)
Authored By and Copyright with:
Maraimalai Ilakkuvanar
52/3 Soundarya Colony,
Anna nagar western extension,
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In 1996, the University of California at Berkeley launched a Tamil Chair,

calling it the first of its kind - in an American University. The person
hired for the Chair was not a native Tamil speaker, but Professor George L.
Hart, whose pro-Dravidian politics were mentioned above. One of the major
campaigners and fund raisers for the Berkeley Chair was the Federation of
Tamil Sangams of North America (FeTNA), whose links with Tamil
nationalist movements are explained later in this Chapter. The first visiting
Professor invited to Berkeley as part of the work done by the Chair was
Professor Ilakkuvanar Maraimalai from Chennai. Ilakkuvanar had
previously visited the U.S.A. in 1987 to attend a linguistic conference. At
that conference, he expressed his delight to have learned many things about
the Mormon religion and the Church of the Latter Day Saints. The Mormon
Bible reminded him of a prominent religious literature in Tamil,
TIRUVACHAGAM. Like a true Dravidianist, Ilakkunavar believes that the
Government of India discriminates against its Tamil citizens and that India
remains North, and that present-day India is a torture camp for religious
minorities. His writings feature topics like sexual assault on Christian
nuns in India, and, I love America. He praised the nobility and greatness
of George Hart, and in turn, Hart wrote to the Government of India,
supporting Ilakkuvanars Dravidianist positions, including his opinions on
the status of Tamil studies in India. Hart used the Berkeley Tamil Studies
Chair to boost those scholars who emphasise the separateness of Tamil from
Indian traditions. He accomplishes this by organizing forums where such
scholars come together to reinforce Dravidian separatist identity politics in
India. For instance, he organized a meeting of Western Tamil educators
featuring Thomas Malten, whose Tamil Studies department at Cologne
University was closely associated with Germanys Lutheran Church (whose
activities in India are discussed in Chapter 17 and also Appendix H).
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Tamil under an American National Defence Foreign Language fellowship
and whose work is considered to have opened up for U.S. policymakers an
India that does not speak Hindi and looks back to nearly 2,000 years of
tradition outside of Sanskrit. Tamil conferences organized by the Berkeley
Tamil Chair often feature papers that deconstruct traditional Tamil images of
devotion, in the same manner as is found in modern Dravidian politics. For
example, a paper by Hart interprets RAMAYANA as a strange work filled
with contradictions between Brahminical thought and martial valour. He
sees RAMAYANA primarily and yet subtly as a way to oppress the
Dravidians. Hart claims that this was later reflected in the way that the great
military and imperial power of the Cholas was leavened by the Brahminical
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of the places you mention, and they are truly beautiful. I'd like to someday
visit all the beautiful places of your country. By the way, I have a Master's
degree in linguistics, and while I haven't studied the languages of India, I am
well aware that there are more than Sanskrit, and that Sanskrit is not used in
everyday speech! i'm glad you could educate some American students; I
hope they will pass your teachings on. I'm not a believer in the Mormon
faith either, but I do applaud their emphasis on family ties. Thanks again for
this wonderful piece; I'm looking forward to the next part!
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This is so typical of fanatical religious terrorists, and it won't stop unless all
decent Indians stand up in protest against the violence, the religious
intolerance, and the passiveness of the government. The people of India are
in my prayers.
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generation...although hopefully they are as appalled as are you and i...so
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