Sample Copy Not For Distribution. Thamizh Is Not Just A Language - The Valour i Sample Copy Not For Distribution. Publishing-in-support-of, EDUCREATION PUBLISHING RZ 94, Sector - 6, Dwarka, New Delhi - 110075 Shubham Vihar, Mangla, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh - 495001 Website: www.educreation.in __________________________________________________ © Copyright, Author All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, magnetic, optical, chemical, manual, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written consent of its writer. ISBN: 978-1-5457-0304-5 Price: ` 250.00 The opinions/ contents expressed in this book are solely of the author and do not represent the opinions/ standings/ thoughts of Educreation. Printed in India ii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. Thamizh Is Not Just A Language The Valour Ki. Madhan Kumar EDUCREATION PUBLISHING (Since 2011) www.educreation.in iii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. iv Sample Copy Not For Distribution. கு羿தழீஇ埍 க ோக ோ母毁믍 மோநி மꟍனꟍ அ羿தழீஇ நி쟍கு믍 உ கு. The world clings to the ruler’s feet Whose sceptre clasps the people’s heart. THIRUKURAL, 554, GODLY POET THIRUVALLUVAR (200 B.C.E.) v Sample Copy Not For Distribution. RAJA RAJA CHOZHAN (947 C.E. – 1014 C.E.) CHOZHAN DYNASTY FIRST INDIAN KING TO HAVE THE NAVAL FORCE vi Sample Copy Not For Distribution. PULI THEVAN NERKAATTUM SEVVAL (1715 A.D. – 1767 A.D.) FIRST EVER KING OF INDIA TO FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH vii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. MAVEERAN AZHAGU MUTHU KONE ETTAYAPURAM (1710 A.D. - 1759 A.D.) FREEDOM FIGHTER viii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. KING MARUTHU PANDIYAR SIVAGANGAI DYNASTY WARRIORS AGAINST BRITISH ix Sample Copy Not For Distribution. MAVEERAN DHEERAN CHINNAMALAI CHENNIMALAI, ERODE (1756 C.E. – 1805 C.E.) WARRIOR AGAINST BRITISH COLONIALS x Sample Copy Not For Distribution. THIRUVENGADA VELUPILLAI PRABHAKARAN THAMIZH NATIONAL LEADER - THAMIZH EEZHAM BORN 1964, VALVETTITHURAI. xi Sample Copy Not For Distribution. KANNAGI (2ND CENTURY C.E.) ICON OF CHASTITY xii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. RANI VELU NACHIYAR SIVAGANGAI DYNASTY (1730 C.E. – 1796 C.E.) FIRST EVER QUEEN IN INDIAN HISTORY TO FORM A WOMEN ARMY & FIGHT AGAINST BRITISH COLONIALS AND RECAPTURED HER DYNASTY. xiii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. THALAPATHY KUYILI CAPTAIN OF RANI VELUNACHIYAR’S WOMEN ARMY – UDAYAL PADAI FIRST EVER WARRIOR WHO TURNED AS HUMAN BOMB AND SACRIFICED HER LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF HER MOTHER LAND. xiv Sample Copy Not For Distribution. Introduction In general histories of India, the part of the country with which we are concerned figures only in a small way. Vincent Smith rightly observed „most historians of ancient India have written as if the South did not exist‟ and explained this neglect of the South in two ways. „The historian of India,‟ he said, „is bound by the nature of things to direct his attention to the North, and is able to give only a secondary place to the story of Deccan Plateau and the far south. „South India and northern Ceylone are the one of the oldest inhabited regions of the world and its prehistoric archaeology and contacts with neighbouring lands, so far as traceable, constitutes an important chapter in the history of world‟s civilizations. The Marathas of the western Deccan are the southern most of indo Aryan speaking people and all the country to the east and south of them speaks languages which fall into a single group with Thamizh as the source which is the Classical living language & exists the ethnicity called Thamizhan, with its own individuality and unique, unconquerable potency in both Politics, culture, sport, worship, art, agriculture and valour. They had a wide spread life in now called India with Himalayas as their border in North and Kanyakumari in South. They defeated enemies and won the dynasties with their audacity, courage and gallantry; made the non fertile land into cultivable with their knowledge on farming. This was the life of thousands of years ago. Still in North India its heritage is been rested under the earth. There are many researches which proved the antiquities of Thamizh language. Recent research conducted by sixteen scientist led by Prof. Martin P. Richards and Tony Joseph of University of Huddersfield., concluded the fact that Aryan settlement xv Sample Copy Not For Distribution. came from central Asia with the Indo Aryan languages before 2000 B.C. to 1500 B.C. when the Indus Valley Civilization was in the decline stage, which proved that the Indus Valley Civilization is been in existence long before Aryan settlement and it has been mentioned it as the Dravidian people who are the owners of it, where that period there was no other Dravidian language other than Thamizh which implies Indus Valley Civilization is nothing but the Thamizh People Civilization. These Thamizh people lived with their own language, culture, literature, music, worship and games existed all over India. To add credit to this research there were some important excavations carried out in Korkai and Adichanallur near in Thoothukudi District Thamizh Nadu led by Archaeologist T. Sathyamurthy discovered the artefacts mentioned "People generally think that megalithic culture is the earliest culture in South India, especially in Thamizh Nadu. In our excavation [at Adichanallur], we have come across a culture earlier than the megalithic period. The megalithic period in South India ranges from 3rd century B.C. to 3rd century A.D” in an interview and Keezhadi which is 15kms from Madurai, Thamizh Nadu by Archaeological Survey of India, and team lead by Archaeologist Mr. Amarnath Ramakrishna. There were found over 5,300 artefacts aging in the same period, also was the first ever evidence of an urban civilization of Sangam Era, which is widely as crowning point of Thamizh culture and Literature. Ruled by number of courageous tripartite Kingdoms Cheran, Chozhan and Pandian dynasty from Sangam eras in most of the areas and by Pallavas at Eastern coastal areas this glorious cultural heritage has been sustained and still immortal in Thamizh Nadu and Thamizh Eezham. Each and every ruler of these dynasties has been very passionate towards the Thamizh language, art and literature. They stood together in so xvi Sample Copy Not For Distribution. many instances with so much of courage in the battles to save them from opponent kingdoms. They have been very clear in transforming their valour as the lesson to upcoming generation so they did their acts in the form of poems, literatures and stone inscriptions that are found in many places of Thamizh Nadu in modern era too, literatures Tholkappiyam, Thirukural, Purananuru, Agananuru, Silapathikaram, Kalingathuparani, Pathitrupathu and still more available to explain their act of valour and courage. Cheran Chenguttuvan, Nedun Cheralathan, Karikal Chozhan, Raja Raja Chozhan, Rajendhra Chozhan, Kulothunga Chozhan, Nedun Chezhia Pandian, Kulasekara Pandian were some of the incredible among the kings. Raja Rajan and Rajendhra are the kings who were the owned the first ever Naval invasions in South East Asia and made their flag waging all over south East Asia. During their period Chozhan empire is considered to be the 3rd largest in the world. In Sangam age the expectation of Mothers from son and Wives from their pair was the same, as brave death in the war field without showing their back cowardly to the enemies; their reactions were explained in Purananuru (Four Hundred Song of War and Wisdom). The bravery was fed to the warrior right from his child hood by his mother and sustained by his wife. All the sport played by males those days were helped to build the skill, strengthen mind and the grow valiance. Sports like Yaeru Thazhuvuthal (Sallikattu), Silambattam, Vaal Veechu etc., are still in practice of Thamizh Nadu. In later centuries after British Invasions there were many Kings like Azhagu Muthu Kon, Puli Thevar, Maruthu Pandiyar and warriors like Veeran Sundharalingam, Dheeran Chinnamalai who rose against them to save our land. Also queen Velu Nachiyar who was the first queen to build a women army and first woman to swing the sword against English East India xvii Sample Copy Not For Distribution. Company and one of the few empires who recaptured their kingdom, she did this a 85 years before Rani Lakshmi Bhai of Jhansi, but somehow we have missed to recognize it. Kuyili the captain of Velu Nachiyar‟s women troop was the first ever human bomb in the world during the war against British. In the Modern Age its Thamizh National Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, who ruled Thamizh Eezham and stood for the freedom of Thamizh Eezham. Started his struggle at the age of 14, stepped out of the home, initiated an armed rebel group with just 30 members, then formed a revolution organisation named Liberation Tigers Thamizh Eezham (LTTE). LTTE, the organisation which was grown as the only revolution or rebel organisation which owned all three military troops Army, Naval and Air with women wing and suicide attackers the Black Tigers with around 40000 brigades strength. He formed a separate judicial government with school, college, medical, banks and courts in Eezham. In the final war he had lost all his family for the sake of his mother land. His glory will always be remembered to Centuries by Thamizhs. This is what all about in this book, the valour, courage and valiance of kings and warriors who existed in Thamizh ethnics‟ right from the ancient era. Shown with available referrals from the Thamizh epics and literatures from Sangam era translated in English. Now let us start our journey from Sangam age to the Mordern age by visualizing all the battles, wars and prowess of our ancestors.