Dravidian, Dravidan, or Dravida may refer to:
Language and culture
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Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka
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Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages
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Dravidian University
The Dravidian University, Kuppam, Andhra Pradesh, India was established by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, through a Legislature Act (No. 17 of 1997) with the initial support extended by the governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala for ...
, a university situated in Andhra Pradesh
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South Indian culture, modern Dravidian culture
Geography
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Dravida Nadu, a proposed country for the southern Dravidian languages
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South India, the region which is called Dravida in the Indian anthem
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Dravida Kingdom, an ancient region mentioned in the ''Mahabharata''
Ethnicity
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Dravidian peoples
The Dravidian peoples, or Dravidians, are an ethnolinguistic and cultural group living in South Asia who predominantly speak any of the Dravidian languages. There are around 250 million native speakers of Dravidian languages. Dravidian spe ...
, ethnic groups primarily in South India.
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Homo Dravida
Various attempts have been made, under the British Raj and since, to classify the population of India according to a racial typology. After independence, in pursuance of the government's policy to discourage distinctions between communities bas ...
, a historically defined race, propagated also by Devaneya Pavanar
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Adi Dravida, natives of Southern India
Religion
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Dravidian folk religion
The early Dravidian religion constituted a non-Vedic form of Hinduism in that they were either historically or are at present Āgamic. The Agamas are non-Vedic in origin,Mudumby Narasimhachary (ed.) (1976). "Āgamaprāmāṇya of Yāmunācārya ...
Others
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Dravidan (1989 film), a 1989 Tamil film
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Dravida Sangha
See also
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Dravid (surname) Dravid ( mr, द्रविड) is a surname found in the Deshastha Rigvedi Brahmin (DRB) community in the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Varanasi and Karnataka of India.
Notable people
* Rahul Dravid, former captain of Indian national c ...
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Davidian (disambiguation)
Davidian may refer to:
*Shepherd's Rod, a Seventh-day Adventist offshoot that later called themselves Davidians
* Branch Davidian, the most famous Shepherd's Rod splinter group
*Davidian (song)
''Burn My Eyes'' is the debut studio album by Amer ...
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