Greater Tamil Nadu

The maximum extent of the Pandyan Empire, which covers Tamil speaking areas on present-day India proper and the island of Sri Lanka.

Greater Tamil Nadu is an irredentist concept of Tamil nationalism that centers on forming a national homeland for the Tamils by merging the Tamil speaking areas of India proper (the "mainland") and Sri Lanka (the "island"). However such areas also include Kannada and Telugu speaking population in Northern part, Malayalam speaking population in South and Sinhalese people in the islands. Greater Tamil Nadu was proposed by various Tamil groups such as Naam Tamilar led by S. P. Adithanar in 1958 and the Tamil Nadu Liberation Front (TNLF) and the Tamil National Retrieval Troops (TNRT) in the late-1980s.[1]

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References

  1. ↑ Dynamics of Tamil Nadu Politics in Sri Lankan Ethnicity (2003) by Ganapathy Palanithurai, K. Mohanasundaram, p.44


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