Tamil Nadu
It is a language older than Sanskrit. building social justice institutions that the rest of India is trying to copy. Their population is 77 million, and GDP is 27 lakh crore. Tamil literature is more than two thousand years old. Tamil Nadu writes its own script.
Every non-Tamil Indian experience – in a government office, railway station or political debate – realises that Tamil Nadu is operating by an entirely different system and entirely different assumptions, which are not separate from any hostile assumption or any bad thing for the country, but they are just different. The state has its own cultural gravity, its own intellectual tradition, its own model of social justice, and its own foreign policy instincts. Don’t just bend to the Indian union; negotiate with it.
Tamil Nadu is building kind of the next level of civilisation. The HDI index is #2. The literacy rate of the state is 94.3 (one of the best). And according to the GDP, it is on the #3 of the country.
Geography.
It is surrounded by the Indian Ocean, Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal, making it one of the Indian states with a coastline of multiple major water bodies. All these water bodies make the land of cultivation very productive. The kind of rice which is produced here is one of the best qualities. Tamil Nadu is also one of the states which is suffering from climate change right now. But in the old days, monsoon season in India came in from Tamil Nadu.
History
Tamil is one of the oldest languages in the world, and Sangam literature, a body of poetry written between roughly 300 BCE and 300 CE, is a testament to this. It has its own sophisticated, urbanised, trade-connected civilisation with its own categories of philosophy. Tamil people don’t see it as ancient history; they see their history as their identity.
The greatest empire in nation history was the Chola empire (9th – 13th centuries CE). You talk. They got to South Asia, present-day Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. All these countries were greatly affected by the Chola empire. All over Asia they admired the kind of temple architecture, language and religious practices. These temples and these religious places are some of the tourist attractions for India to date.
The image below is about the Dravidian Movement – India’s Most Successful Social Revolution. There is no political story in modern India more consequential, less understood or more authentically revolutionary than the Dravidian movement. It warrants its own timeline.
Hence, Tamil Nadu has a 69% reservation for OBC-SCs and STs; that is the highest among all the states of India and crosses the 50% cap set by the Supreme Court. It has survived because of its ninth schedule of the Constitution, which protects it from judicial review.
Politics
The Tamil Nadu political system is among the most stable compared to those of the large Indian states. Power was changing hands between two parties, DMK and AIADMA, almost every decade. Tamil Nadu cinema is also a reason for political stability in the state. All big stars like Vijayakanth, Kamal Haasan and Rajinikanth – all these actors are related to the politics of Tamil Nadu.
Economy
Tamil Nadu is the 3rd largest state economy in India and the most industrially diversified. Chennai is famous for automobiles and IT; Coimbatore is famous for textile engineering and is also known as the Manchester of South India; and Tiruppur is known for being one of the largest garment exporter hubs in India.
Chennai is fast becoming the ‘Detroit of India’. Hyundai, Ford, BMW, Renault, Nissan, Royal Enfield, Ashok Leyland, TVS and Hero have major manufacturing plants in and around the city. Tamil Nadu accounts for about 35% of the country’s automobile and 40% of auto-component outputs.
It has the highest rate of literacy, the highest workforce participation rate, and the best public distribution systems in India. The achievements in human development are most impressive, and the economic output has the lowest infant mortality rate.
Unresolved issues
1. The caste problems very much exist even after the Dravidian movement; Dalits are still being treated badly and are made to face violent discrimination.
2. Tamil Nadu, which depends on the river for Kaveri Delta Rise cultivation, has been corrupted in protest every time. This is a conflict that has never been resolved, only managed. Meanwhile, the groundwater depletion across the state – especially in Chennai, which almost ran out of water in 2019 – is among the most dramatic urban water crises in Indian history.
3. The NEET exam has also been the most heated current political battle. “They take away the seats of rural poor people and give them to urban students who go to institutes.
Summary
Tamil Nadu is a great state, and it cannot be ignored in the Indian economy. Many respect it. Tamil Nadu always is an example of how an economy should work. It is a state that has maintained its virginity of instant culture, aggressively pursuing social equality and dominating as a modern industry.
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