The rising popularity of the Devanagari script for Sanskrit, and the political pressure created by the Tanittamil Iyakkam for its complete replacement by the modern Tamil script led to its gradual disuse and abandonment in Tamil Nadu in the early 20th century.

These ideas gained notability in Tamil academic literature over the first decades of the 20th century, and were popularized by the Tanittamil Iyakkam, notably by self-taught Dravidologist Devaneya Pavanar, who held that all languages on earth were merely corrupted Tamil dialects.

Examples: Arabic, Tanittamil Iyakkam in Tamil language, Icelandic ( see also: Linguistic purism in Icelandic ), Katharevousa Greek, Sanskrit, Latin ( puristic obsession with classical forms during the Renaissance ).

* Tamil – Tanittamil Iyakkam

Ambedkar Makkal Iyakkam ( Ambedkar Popular Unity ), is a political movement in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu working for the upliftment of Dalits.

Makkal Vizhippunarvu Iyakkam ( Popular Awareness Union, in Tamil: மக ் கள ் வ ி ழ ி ப ் ப ு ணர ் வ இயக ் கம ்), a political party in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.

His political philosophy was largely shaped by his father Keshav Sitaram Thackeray, a leading figure in the Samyukta Maharashtra movement ( United Maharashtra movement ), which advocated the creation of a separate linguistic state of Maharashtra.

The principal legacy of the Cathar movement is in the poems and songs of the Cathar troubadors, though this artistic legacy is only a smaller part of the wider Occitan linguistic and artistic heritage.

Further, the generative theory has several hypothetical constructs ( such as movement, empty categories, complex underlying structures, and strict binary branching ) that cannot possibly be acquired from any amount of linguistic input.

In the early 20th century, many anthropologists accepted and taught the belief that biologically distinct races were isomorphic with distinct linguistic, cultural, and social groups, while popularly applying that belief to the field of eugenics, in conjunction with a practice that is now called scientific racism. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was co-opted by the budding eugenics movement to justify systematic population and racial planning in the early 20th century.

The terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian entered usage in the 18th century as terms for the three Scandinavian countries, their peoples and associated language and culture, being introduced by the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement.

Much later, Diafotismos was an ideological, philological, linguistic and philosophical movement among 18th century Greeks that translate the ideas and values of European Enlightenment into the Greek world.

The term Scandinavian arose in the 18th century, as a result of the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement, referring to the peoples, cultures and languages of the three Scandinavian countries and stressing their common heritage.

In the 1950s, the country wide movement of linguistic groups seeking statehood in India resulted in a massive reorganisation of states according to linguistic boundaries in 1956.

In Quebec, with a secessionist movement and linguistic dichotomy, the division of a newly independent Quebec has been a strong undercurrent, with some having a Province of Montreal remaining in Canada, sometimes containing only the West Island and the West Shore of Montreal.

The modern English-only movement has met with rejection from the private organization Linguistic Society of America, which passed a resolution in 1986 – 87 opposing "' English only ' measures on the grounds that they are based on misconceptions about the role of a common language in establishing political unity, and that they are inconsistent with basic American traditions of linguistic tolerance.

It was in this backdrop that the movement that first started as a protest against linguistic oppression, soon morphed into one that began demanding a separate state be created consolidating all Kannada speaking regions.

The main success of the national movement in 1988-1989 was the adoption on August 31, 1989 by the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR of the Moldavian language as official, declaration in the preambule of a Moldavian-Romanian linguistic unity, and the return of the language to the pre-Soviet Latin alphabet.

This movement, under the banner of Illlyrism, aimed to create a Croatian national establishment under Austro-Hungarian rule, through linguistic and ethnic unity among South Slavs.

In the 1960s the Flemish movement once more gathered momentum and, in 1962, the linguistic borders within Belgium were finally drawn up with Brussels being designated as a bilingual city.

At the start of the 1980s, the majority of Farah was allied with the Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami movement, but after 1981 the province split along linguistic lines, with Pashtun-speaking opponents of the communist government remaining with Harakat, and Farsi-Dari speakers moving to the Jamiat-e Islami.

The Walloon Movement ( after World War II ) differs from the Flemish movement in that it is focused not on cultural and linguistic factors but rather on economic factors.

The formation of the linguistic sign is marked by movement, and is not static.

A number of the artists traditionally associated with the movement had linguistic origins that were neither Dutch nor Flemish.

He was accused of double standards for, on the one hand demanding a " free " Quebec because of its linguistic differences from English-speaking Canada, while on the other oppressing the movement in Brittany.

While the various Turkic peoples often share historical, cultural and linguistic roots, the rising of a pan-Turkic political movement is a phenomenon only of the 19th and 20th century and can be seen in parallel with European developments like Pan-Slavism and Pan-Germanism or with Pan-Iranism.

The poetic output is perhaps comparable to that of the contemporary Dadaism but the linguistic theory or metaphysics behind zaum was entirely devoid of the gentle self-irony of that movement and in all seriousness intended to recover the sound symbolism of a lost aboriginal tongue.

The struggle for linguistic rights has sometimes combined with the movement for religious and political freedom in Nepal.

Some members of the Faction work to oppose ideologies that have become very influential within the general Esperanto movement in the past decades: ethnism, the instrumentalization of Esperanto in favor of various sorts of identity politics, differentialism ( ethnopluralism ) and language nationalism and purism ( so-called " language defence ").

The terrorist bomb responsible for killing 113 civilians was planted by the Tamil Tigers separatist movement and was not targeted towards the touring New Zealand cricket team.

Other violent secessionist movements in Nagaland, Assam, Manipur, Punjab ( known as the Khalistan movement ), Mizoram and Tripura were also formerly active, while Tamil Nadu had a non-violent movement in the 1960s.

The Bhakti movement originated in ancient Tamil Nadu and began to spread to the north during the late medieval ages when north India was under Islamic rule.

It is believed that by supporting different militant groups, the Indian government hoped to keep the Tamil independence movement divided and be able to exert overt control over it.

Rajaji was always an archetypal Tamil Brahmin nemesis of the Dravidian movement.

Although his work as a dentist in the Godavari delta area of Bihar, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu progressed slowly, it produced in time a flourishing movement of Indian Brethren with a particularly emphasis in Kerala.

The Bhakti movement in Hinduism was founded by Tamil saints at this time, and rose along with the growing influence of Jainism and Buddhism.

The present Tamil Nadu politics has descended from Periyar and his movement.

With the rise of the bhakti movement from the 12th century onwards, religious works started being created in Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu and many other Indian languages throughout the different regions of India.

From the 6th to 12th century CE, the Tamil devotional poems written by Nayanmars ( sages of Shaivism ) and ( Alvars, sages of Vaishnavism ) heralded the great Bhakti movement which later engulfed the entire Indian subcontinent.

The modern Tamil literary movement started with Subramania Bharathi, the mutli-faceted Indian Nationalist poet and author, and was quickly followed up by many who began to utilize the power of literature in influencing the masses.

Parasakthi was a turning point in Tamil cinema, as it espoused the ideologies of the Dravidian movement and also introduced two prominent actors of Tamil filmdom, Sivaji Ganesan and S. S. Rajendran.

During the Adi-Andhra movement of the 1930s, several Mala caste people, including few Madigas, especially from coastal Andhra called themselves as ' Adi-Andhra ' and were recorded in the census with the ' Adi-Andhra ' caste name akin to Adi Dravida of Tamil Nadu.

However the Muslim subjugation of north India restricted Shaiva Siddhanta to the south, where it merged with the Tamil Saiva movement expressed in the bhakti poetry of the Nayanars.

From the fifth to the eighth CE Buddhism and Jainism had spread in Tamil Nadu before a forceful Shaiva bhakti movement arose.

Ramasamy ( Periyar ) ( a noted rationalist movement leader in Tamil Nadu ) and his view of brahminism in Tamil Nadu.

) Secondly, the 1950s saw the growth of the Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu, under the leadership of C. N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi.

India had, initially under Indira Gandhi and later under Rajiv Gandhi, provided support to Tamil interests from the very conception of the secessionist movement.

To this end, the Indira Gandhi Government sought to make it clear to the Sri Lankan President, Jayewardene that armed intervention in support of the Tamil movement was an option India would consider if any diplomatic solutions should fail.