| 5.
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All
Tamil Scholars belonging to the Orthodox School are either unemployed
or removed from service, and thus incapacitated from doing anything
to bring out the greatness of Tamil. |
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| 6. |
The majority of the Tamilians of the elder generation have become
degenerate as a result of the age-long social degradation brought
about by the Aryan congenital caste system. |
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| 7.
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The
Tamilians are educationally backward, and about eighty per cent of
them are illiterate. |
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| 8. |
All public and temple worship of the so-called Hindus, not to speak
of their house-hold ceremonies, is invariably performed in Sanskrit
or Vedic language. |
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| 9. |
The active propaganda being carried on by Sanskritists in favour of
Sanskrit and against Tamil, in season and out of season, is not countracted
by the Tamilians. |
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| 10. |
All the arts and sciences of the pre-Aryan Tamils have been recorded
in or translated into Sanskrit, and the Sanskrit works appear to be
the original in the absence of the primeval Tamil literature. |
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| 11. |
The Sanskristists are advanced in education and dominant in all departments
of public life. |
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| 12. |
The ubiquity of Sanskristists and universality of Sanskrit studies
in India have contributed much to the eclipse of Tamil. |
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| 13.
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Almost
all the Tamilians of the present day bear Sanskrit names. The names
of all important holy shrines of Tamil Nadu are either Sanskristised
or replaced by Sanskrit translations. |
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| 14.
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The
situation of Tamil Nadu at the extreme South of the sub-continent
of India, is not favourable for attracting the attention of foreigners
as much as Sanskrit. |
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| 15. |
After all the Dravidian peoples have become completely Aryanised in
culture, the Tamil nation has dwindled into a small minority. |