TAMIL NADU

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A brief history

South India · Formed 1969 · Capital Chennai

Home to one of the world's oldest continuously spoken languages, Tamil Nadu carries the legacy of the Chola, Chera, Pandya, and Pallava dynasties. Formed as Madras State in 1950, it was renamed Tamil Nadu in 1969.

LanguagesTamil

Famous families & dynasties

Chola Dynasty
Built Brihadeeswara temple; naval empire reached Sumatra.
Pandya Dynasty
Rulers of Madurai — patrons of Tamil literature.
Nattukottai Chettiars
Merchant-banker community of Chettinad — trade across Southeast Asia.
Iyer / Iyengar Agraharam
Brahmin scholarly households of Thanjavur and Tirunelveli.
Vellalar landowning families
Traditional agrarian dynasties of the Kaveri delta.

Communities & clans

IyerIyengarVellalarChettiarMudaliarReddiarNadarIsai Vellalar

Common gotras / clan names

BharadwajaKaushikaKashyapaShrivatsaHaritaVadhula

Migration corridors from Tamil Nadu

→Sri LankaColonial-era plantation labor; later Tamil refugees.
→Malaysia / Singapore1800s–1930s — plantation and railway labor.
→United StatesIT and medical migration since the 1970s.
→United KingdomNHS and academia — Ceylon Tamil families via London.

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