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Of or pertaining to the Dravida...
Dravidic
one of the languages native to southern India a Dravidian language...
Hindoo
A native inhabitant of Hindostan As an ethnical term it is confined to the Dravidian and Aryan races as a religious name it is restricted to followers of the Veda...
Khond
A Dravidian of a group of tribes of Orissa India a section of whom were formerly noted for their cruel human sacrifices to the earth goddess murder of female infants and marriage by capture...
Kodagu
A Dravidian language...
Malayalam
The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages closely related to the Tamil...
Hindu
Hindu, The historical and etymological genesis of the word 'Hindu' has given rise to a controversy amongst ideologists; but the view generally accepted by scholars appears to be that the word 'Hindu' is derived from the river Sindhu otherwise known as Indus which flows from the Punjab. 'That part of the great Aryan race', says Monier Williams, 'which immigrated from Central Asia, through the mountain passes into India, settled first in the districts near the river Sindhu (now called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by Monler Williams, p.1.)'. The Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics, Vol. VI, has described 'Hinduism' as the title applied to that form of religion which prevails among the vast majority of the present population of the Indian Empire (p. 686). As Dr. Radhakrishnan has obs...
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