According to 19th century British historians, it was these " Aryans " who " invaded " India and established the caste system, an elitist act of social organization that ( according to the British ) separated the " light-skinned " Indo-Aryan conquerors from the " conquered dark-skinned " indigenous Dravidian tribes through enforcement of " racial endogamy ".

According to the 2001 Census of India, Telugu is the language with the third largest number of native speakers in India ( 74 million ), thirteenth in the Ethnologue list of most-spoken languages worldwide, and most spoken Dravidian language.

According to him, similar forms can also be found outside Indo-Pacific in Australian, Nilo-Saharan, Niger – Kordofanian, Afroasiatic, Eurasiatic, Dravidian, Austric, and Amerind, although its meaning has changed significantly in some of these families.

According to Bishop Robert Caldwell, in his Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages, the term is derived from kar, black, and nadu, country, i. e. the black country, which refers to the black soil prevalent on the plateau of the Southern Deccan.

The Substratum of the Konkani language lies in the speech of Proto-Australoids tribes called Kurukh, Oraon, Kukni, whose modern sepresentatives are Dravidian languages like Kurukh and its dialects like Kurux, Kunrukh, Kunna and Malto According to the Indian Anthropological Society, these Australoid tribes speaking Dravidian languages once inhabited Konkan, migrated to Northern India ( Chota Nagpur Plateau, Mirzapur ) and are not found in Konkan anymore Olivinho Gomes in his essay Medieval Konkani literature also mentions Mundari substratum.

According to Sergent, the Dravidian populations are not autochthonous either, but of African origin.

According to Swadesh ( 1959: 114 ), it included " Vasconic, the Caucasian languages, Ural-Altaic, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Chinese, Austronesian, Japanese, Chukchi ( Siberia ), Eskimo-Aleut, Wakash, and Na-Dene ", and possibly " Sumerian ".

According to one source, " they could be a synthesis between Vedic deities and autochthonous Dravidian totemic deities.

According to the Dravidian Etymological Dictionary, has the following meanings: pen ( Kannada ), hamlet ( Malayalam ), cowstall, sheepfold ( Tamil ).

According to many scholars it only comprises a small number of monosyllabic lexical roots, including the personal pronouns and a few other deictic and auxiliary items.

According to some scholars Ali ibn Yusuf was a new generation of leadership that had forgot the desert life for the comforts of the city.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to some scholars, he was more interested in spirituality than in critical text study, which was a specialty of many scholars at JTS.

According to textual scholars, this is really the Jahwist's account of the reunion after Joseph identifies himself, and the account of the threat to enslave Benjamin is just the Elohist's version of the same event, with the Elohist being more terse about Joseph's emotions towards Benjamin, merely mentioning that Benjamin was given five times as many gifts as the others.

According to several biblical scholars, Benjamin was also originally part of this single tribe, but the biblical account of Joseph as his father became lost.

According to this view, the story of Jacob's visit to Laban to obtain a wife originated as a metaphor for this migration, with the property and family which were gained from Laban representing the gains of the Joseph tribes by the time they returned from Egypt ; according to textual scholars, the Jahwist version of the Laban narrative only mentions the Joseph tribes, and Rachel, and does not mention the other tribal matriarchs whatsoever.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

According to the editors of the 1897 Easton's Bible Dictionary, some scholars believe the name " Malachi " is not a proper noun but rather an abbreviation of " messenger of YHWH ".

According to these scholars, there was something they variously call " earliest Buddhism ", " original Buddhism " or " pre-canonical Buddhism ".

According to some scholars, the philosophical outlook of earliest Buddhism was primarily negative, in the sense that it focused on what doctrines to reject more than on what doctrines to accept.

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

According to scholars including Neil Forsyth and John L. McKenzie, the Old Testament incorporates stories, or fragments of stories, from extra-biblical mythology.

According to a number of scholars, the Christ story contains mythical themes such as descent to the underworld, the heroic monomyth, and the " dying god " ( see section below on " mythical themes and types ").

According to Lorena Laura Stookey, " many scholars " see a link between stories in " Irish-Celtic mythology " about journeys to the Otherworld in search of a cauldron of rejuvenation and medieval accounts of the quest for the Holy Grail.

According to non-Orthodox Jews and critical historians, Jewish law too has been affected by surrounding cultures ( for example, some scholars argue that the establishment of absolute monotheism in Judaism was a reaction against the dualism of Zoroastrianism that Jews encountered when living under Persian rule ; Jews rejected polygamy during the Middle Ages, influenced by their Christian neighbors ).

According to one pair of scholars, " The actual authorship of the three maxims set up on the Delphian temple may be left uncertain.

According to scholars Carole Kismaric and Marvi Heiferman, " The golden age of detective fiction began with high-class amateur detectives sniffing out murderers lurking in rose gardens, down country lanes, and in picturesque villages.

According to scholars, dhimmis had their rights fully protected in their communities, but as citizens in the Islamic state, had certain restrictions.

According to Western scholars the older sections of the Book of Enoch ( mainly in the Book of the Watchers ) date from about 300 BC and the latest part ( Book of Parables ) probably was composed at the end of 1st century BC.

According to his letters, he was associated with the Venetian natural philosopher, Giulio Camillo, but, apart from this, he had a less active association with Italian scholars than might have been expected.

According to pre-Meiji scholars, his reign spanned the years from 1348 through 1351.

According to witnesses, it started on 17 August 1922, with Krishnamurti complaining of sharp pain at the nape of his neck.

According to Lutyens, it is evident from his notebook that this experience of otherness was “ with him almost continuously ” during his life and gave him “ a sense of being protected .” Krishnamurti describes it in his notebook as typically following an acute experience of the process, for example, on awakening the next day:

According to Krishnamurti, such action distorts our perception and full understanding of the world we live in, and more specifically, the relationships that define it.

According to Krishnamurti, many problems in the world such as poverty, war, the nuclear threat, and other unfortunate circumstances, have their roots in our thinking.

According to Kamil Zvelebil, the assemblies may have been founded and patronised by the Pandian kings and functioning in three different capitals consecutively till the last sangam was set up in Madurai.

According to Jacques Sesiano, Abu Kamil remained seemingly unparalleled throughout the Middle Ages in trying to find all the possible solutions to some of his problems.

According to an inscription in Kannada dated 1162 A. D., it was built by the Early Chalukya king Vijayaditya and was named Vijayeshvara.

According to rumors in Karnataka, this was the entry into Kannada Film Industry for Dr. Hosmane.

According to a 2001 survey, there were 1, 863 newspapers published in Tamil, of which 353 were dailies.

According to Iraiyanar Agapporul, a 10th / 11th century annotation on the Sangam literature, the Tamil country extended southwards beyond the natural boundaries of the Indian peninsula comprising 49 ancient nadus ( divisions ).

According to a BBC article, Jeremy Corbyn along with John McDonnell have signed a petition Calling on UK to lift the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam-which is registered as a terrorist group by the European Union.

According to the Puranas, Shakti worshipped Shiva in the form of a peacock, which is why the vernacular name Mylai () was given to the area that developed around the temple-mayil is Tamil for " peacock ".

According to George L. Hart, who holds the endowed Chair in Tamil Studies by University of California, Berkeley, has written that the legend of the Tamil Sangams or " literary assemblies: was based on the Jain sangham at Madurai:

According to historian Venkatraman, the work covers almost every feature of the Tamil siddha cult.

: According to the table of casualties on the 10, 749 casualties were confirmed on 18 January 2005, most of them in the state of Tamil Nadu.

According to Mattakallappu Manmiyam ( மட ் டக ் களப ் ப ு ம ா ன ் ம ி யம ்) the word Mattakkallpu consists Tamil words " Mattu " ( மட ் ட ு) means honey or Matta-derived from " Mattam " ( மட ் டம ்) means ' flat ' and geographical name KaLappu.

According to this report, the five states with largest power demand and availability, as of May 2011, were Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

According to tradition, the Karkathar migrated from the Gangetic plains and over time spread over the entire macro region of present day Tamil Nadu.

According to Peter Schalk a professor of theology from University of Uppsala who has done studies on Sri Lankan Tamils and their culture, Caldwell and the Madras Tamil lexicon were wrong in deriving Eelam from Sihala.

According to the great Tamil commentator Atiyarkkunallar ( 12-13th century CE ), poems were of two kinds-col-totar-nilai-seyyul ( Tamil: ச ொ ல ் த ொ டர ் ந ி ல ை ச ெ ய ் ய ு ள ், poems connected by virtue of their formal properties ) and porul-totar-nilai-seyyul ( Tamil: ப ொ ர ு ள ் த ொ டர ் ந ி ல ை ச ெ ய ் ய ு ள ், poems connected by virtue of content that forms a unity ).

According to a Tamil legend, Avvaiyar ), a female poet, ethicist and political activist of the Sangam period was gifted by one amla to her by King Athiyaman which will give her a long life.

According to the book, Akilam, Hari Gopalan Citar wrote this book on the twenty-seventh day of the Tamil month of Karthikai ( November / December ) in the year 1841 CE.

According to Balan, they speak " a mix of Tamil and Malayalam " at home, but she is also well versed in Hindi, Marathi, English and Bengali.

According to the Gazetteer of the Trichinopoly District, Vol II, 1931, p 67, " the traditional meeting place of the three Tamil kingdoms was the temple of Cellānti Amman on the banks of the Kāvēri, twelve miles west of Kulittalai and three miles below the junction of the Amarāvati and the Kāvēri.

According to the Indian Readership Survey 2006 Kungumam emerged as the top-selling Tamil weekly magazine overtaking historical market leaders like Kumudam and Ananda Vikatan.

According to the Purana, Lord Shiva helped the Tamil saints Sambandhar and Appar to provide relief from the famine.

According Tamil poets he made several victories ( including the Battle of Pazhi ) over the Cheras.

According to P. T. Srinivasa Iyengar, the sages Apastamba and Baudhayana whose sūtras or legislations are followed today by Tamil Brahmins lived in the Telugu-speaking territories to the immediate north of the Tamil country even before the Sangam period.