Dravidian, Dravidan, or Dravida may refer to:

Language and culture

* Dravidian languages, a family of languages spoken mainly in South India and northeastern Sri Lanka * Proto-Dravidian language, a model of the common ancestor of the Dravidian languages *

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 *

South Indian culture South Indian culture refers to the culture of the South Indian states of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana. South Indian culture, though with its visible differences, forms an important part of the Indian culture. The ...

, modern Dravidian culture

Geography

* Dravida Nadu, a proposed country for the southern Dravidian languages * South India, the region which is called Dravida in the Indian anthem * Dravida Kingdom, an ancient region mentioned in the ''Mahabharata''

Ethnicity

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. *

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 *

Adi Dravida Adi Dravida (or Adi Dravidar) is a term that has been used since 1914 by the state of Tamil Nadu in India to denote Paraiyars. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, they made up about half of Tamil Nadu's Scheduled Caste population. Origin ...

, natives of Southern India

Religion

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

Dravidan (1989 film) ''Dravidan'' is a 1989 Indian Tamil-language action film directed by R. Krishnamoorthy, starring Sathyaraj, Vidhyashree and Suparna Anand. It is a remake of the 1988 Malayalam film ''Aryan''. The film was released on 28 October 1989, Diwali da ...

, a 1989 Tamil film *

Dravida Sangha Dravida Sangha was established in 470 CE by a Jain monk named Vajranandi in the city of Madurai in present-day Tamil Nadu. Madurai at that time was under the sway of the Kalabhra rule. The Jain Dravida Sangha aimed at creating a casteless s ...

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