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8 unusual facts about south India


Alexander Mervart

In 1914-1918, he and his wife explored much of the territory of South India and Ceylon, and visited Malaya, Singapore and Indonesia.

Alice Shields

She is also trained as an opera singer, and since the 1990s has acquired skill as a performer of nattuvangam, a form of South Indian rhythmic recitation used to accompany bharatanatyam dance.

Chris Zurawsky

He is also a board member of Home of Hope – U.S., a non-profit that works with the Salesian Sisters of Don Bosco, in southern India, to care for poor orphaned children.

Indian nutcracker

Indian Nutcracker is an adaptation of the famous story of Nutcracker into South Indian Classical Dance Form called Kuchipudi.

Jwalapuram

Jwalapuram is an archaeological site in the Kurnool district of Andhra Pradesh, South India, which shows hominid habitation before and after the Toba event.

Nisha Noor

Nisha also known as Noor Nisha was a popular South Indian actress.

Shishunaala Sharif Saheba

Saint Shishunaala Sharif was a 19th-century poet of North Karnataka, South India.

Superstars of Dance

India's second soloist, Mythili Prakash, went next, performing a traditional South Indian routine.


Appu Nedungadi

Appu Nedungadi is the name of Rao Bahadur T.M. (Thalakodi Madathil) Appu Nedungadi, author of Kundalatha, which was published in 1887, making it one of the earliest novels in Malayalam language, spoken in Kerala state, South India.

Arusiyyah Madrasah

It was established in 1082 AH/1671 AD by the venerated Muslim savant and saint of the Arwi region (modern-day South India and Sri Lanka), Shaikh Ṣadaqatullāh b.

Asianet

The unique blue and pink logo was designed by acclaimed Indian graphic designer Sujata Keshavan and is one of the most recognizable brand identities in the television broadcasting field in south India.

Bank of Madras

Bank of Madras had a branch network spread into all the major cities and trade centers of South India, including Bangalore, Coimbatore, Mangalore, Calicut, Tellicherry, Cochin, Alleppy, Cocanada, Guntur, Masulipatnam, Ootacamund, Nagapatnam, and Tuticorin.

Baselios Cleemis

Baselios Cleemis was born on 15 June 1959 as Isaac Thottumkal (alternatively spelled as Thottunkal) in Mukkoor, a small village close to Mallappally Town in Pathanamthitta district in the State of Kerala in South India.

Brahmi script

The earliest definite evidence of Brahmi script in South India comes from Bhattiprolu in Andhra Pradesh.

Brahmic scripts

Brahmi is clearly attested from the 3rd century BC during the reign of Ashoka, who used the script for imperial edicts, but there are some claims of earlier epigraphy found on pottery in South India and Sri Lanka.

Buddhadatta

Buddhadatta Thera was a 5th-century Theravada Buddhist writer from the town of Uragapura in the Chola kingdom of South India.

Culture of Kerala

Sarpa Kavu (meaning Sacred Grove of the Serpent) is a typically small traditional grove of trees seen in the Kerala state of South India.

Dharmaveera K. Govindaswamy Naidu

Annur Annadhana Vallal Dharmaveera Namboorar Sri K Govindaswamy Naidu (July 12, 1907 - January 28, 1995), popularly known as KG, was an industrialist and philanthropist from Coimbatore, in Tamil Nadu, in South India.

Ernest Forrester Paton

He was the co-founder of Christukula Ashram, the first Protestant Christian Ashram in India, along with S. Jesudasan, a fellow missionary and Tamilian convert to Christianity, at Tirupattur of North Arcot, Tamilnadu—part of then-Madras Presidency in South India.

Govt sksjti

This institution being the first of its kind in South India with a view to provide well trained personnel for higher rungs of the organized textile industry covering various facets of the industry, is growing in its heights year after year and today it can claim to be the tallest institution and is under the control of the Department of Technical Education, Government of Karnataka.

Holy of Holies

The Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Nasrani or Syrian Christians) from Kerala, South India still follow a lot of Jewish Christian tradition.

John Myrdhin Reynolds

Reynolds has taught History of Religions and Buddhist Studies at Shanti Ashram (South India), at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, at the University of California Santa Cruz and at the College of New Rochelle in New York City.

Kodaikanal–Munnar Road

The Kodaikanal–Munnar Road (old SH-18) was located in Dindigul District and Theni District of Tamil Nadu and Idukki district of Kerala in South India.

Malabar Cancer Centre

Malabar Cancer Center (MCC), established at Kodiyeri near Thalassery in Kerala state, South India, is an autonomous centre under the government of Kerala.

Mallika Srinivasan

She has an abiding interest in ensuring development of education and healthcare in India and has been instrumental in supporting organizations such as the Sankara Nethralaya (A leading eye care organization), the Cancer Hospital in Chennai and a number of educational and healthcare facilities in Tirunelveli district in South India.

Manavata

Manavata (originally called Chaitanya Bharat Youth Association) was founded on 19 October 1991 by Srinivasa Chowdary Alluri, a social activist, in Lolla, a remote village in the Godavari belt of the Andhra Pradesh state in South India.

Matrilocal residence

Examples of matrilocal societies include the people of Ngazidja, the Ancient Pueblo Peoples of Chaco Canyon, the Nair community in Kerala in South India, the Moso of Yunnan and Sichuan in southwestern China, the Siraya of Taiwan, and the Minangkabau of western Sumatra.

Miyar House

It tells the personal story of the director as his ancestral house gets dismantled in a remote village called Miyar in Karkala Taluk in Udupi district in Karnataka, South India.

Mugger crocodile

In the 1980s, the largest population of wild crocodiles in Tamil Nadu, South India lived in the Amaravathi Reservoir, and in the Chinnar, Thennar and Pambar rivers that drain into it.

Navnirmaan

The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake had a particularly devastating effect on the livelihoods of coastal communities in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.

Nissanka Malla of Polonnaruwa

Rameswaram of South India, which had come under the control of Sri Lanka during the reign of Parākramabāhu I, continued to be part of Sri Lankan kingdom during the reign of Nissanka Malla as well.

Palaiyakkarar

One of the famous legend is that of the great Kongu Chieftain and Palayakkar, Dheeran Chinnamalai and his revolt against the tryanny of the British forces in the South India

Pietro Della Valle

In India Pietro Della Valle was introduced to the King Vekatappa Nayaka of Keladi, South India by Vithal Shenoy, the chief administrator of those territories.

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary

Pulicat Lake Bird Sanctuary is a famous 481 km² Protected area in Thiruvallur District of Tamil Nadu state near Elavur and Nellore and Chittoor districts of Andhra Pradesh in South India.

Putaani Party

Produced by Children's Film Society, India, the film was shot in a village called Honnapura situated near the town of Dharwad in South India.

Rodiya

Valli is the name of the tribal consort of Hindu deity Murukan in South India and Sri Lanka.

Rushyendramani

Rushyendramani (Telugu: ఋష్యేంద్రమణి) (b: January 1, 1917 - d: August 17, 2002)a trained singer, dancer was a famous stage/film actress and playback singer from South India.

S.V.S. Rathinam

His fore father Kumara Swamy Desikar was born in a town called Kanchipuram (Kanchipuram) Thondai mandalam in Tamil Nadu, South India into an orthodox Saiva Tamil (Desikar) family around the 17th Century.

Sri Mariamman Temple, Singapore

It is believed that most of this work, especially the elaborate plaster sculptures and ornamentation, were produced by skilled craftsmen from the Nagapattinam and Cuddalore districts of South India.

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally

St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally or Chandanapally Valiyapalli is one of the biggest churches in South India, located at a village named Chandanapally, Pathanamthitta District in Kerala state of India.

Syed Mahmood Naqvi

He also established linkages with some leading geochemists outside the country and, among many other projects, led, with John A. Rogers of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a highly-praised Indo-US collaborative programme on Precambrians of South India.

Tahr

While the Arabian Tahr of Oman and the Nilgiri Tahr of South India both have small ranges and are considered endangered, the Himalayan Tahr remains relatively widespread in the Himalayas, and has been introduced to the Southern Alps of New Zealand.

Tamil Jain

Some scholars believe that Jain philosophy must have entered South India some time in 6th century B.C. Literary sources and inscription state that Bhadrabahu came over to Shravanabelagola with a 12000-strong retinue of Jain sages when north India found it hard to negotiate with the 12 year long famine in the reign of Chandragupta Maurya.

The SAFE Foundation

Founded in 2005, The SAFE Foundation currently has projects in Masinagudi in the Nilgiri Hills of South India, Kumasi in Ghana, Freetown in Sierra Leone and Tororo in Uganda.

Tirur River

Tirur River begins in the Tirur taluk village of Athvanad in the Malappuram district of the state of Kerala in south India and flows south-west to Thiruvnavaya and then north-west to Elamkulam where it turns south-west, joining the Bharathapuzha River which flows into the Arabian Sea near the coastal town of Ponnani.


see also

1408

May 9 – Sri Tallapaka Annamacharya the mystic saint composer of the 15th century is the earliest known musician of South India to compose songs called "sankIrtanas" in praise of Lord Venkateswara, the deity of Seven Hills in Tirumala.

Ananda Rao

Ananda Rao Samuel (1928–1999), Bishop of Krishna Godavari of the Church of South India

Australian Consulate General in Chennai

The decision of opening a Consulate General in South India was announced in March 2006, when the then Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, visited the Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Ayyavazhi phenomenology

R.Ponnu's, Sri Vaikunda Swamigal and Struggle for Social Equality in South India, (Doctoral thesis in University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram.) 2000.

Azhikode

Azhikode, Kannur is a village situated in Kannur district of Kerala, south India

Azhikode, Thrissur is also the name of a coastal village in Thrissur district of Kerala, South India

Basel Evangelical Mission Parsi High School, Thalassery

The school, managed by the North Kerala Diocese of the Church of South India, was upgraded to a high school by Rev. C. Mueller who came here to assist German missionary Hermann Gundert.

Benny Behanan

Benny Behanan was born to O. Thomas and Chinnamma Thomas on 22 August 1952 at Vengola, near Perumbavoor in present day Kerala state, South India.

Bhuvanagiri, Tamil Nadu

Bhuvanagiri is the birthplace of the saint of South India, Sri Raghavendra Swami.

Blouse

A choli (Hindi: चोली), (ravike in South India Telugu: రవికె, Kannada: ರವಿಕೆ) is a midriff-baring blouse shell garment in the Indian sari costume worn in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and other countries where the sari is worn.

BM Habitat Mall

The first Easyday Supermarket (Bharti Enterprises Group) in South India was opened at Mysore in this Mall.

Chandramana Govindan Namboothiri

Chandramana Govindan Namboothiri was a famous Kathakali artist from the South Indian state of Kerala

Chayalode

Chayalode is a ward situated in the central Travancore region in the state of Kerala, south India.

Daniel Poor

Daniel Poor Memorial Library in Madurai often abbreviated as DPM Library is the central library of The American College in Madurai, It is one of the oldest libraries present in South India.

Dravidosaurus

The badly weathered remains were discovered in marine deposits near Ariyalur in the state of Tamil Nadu in South India.

Dzogchen Monastery

Now firmly re-established at the Dhondenling Tibetan settlement in Kollegal, South India, Dzogchen Monastery is the official seat of the seventh mindstream 'emanation' (Sanskrit: nirmanakaya) of the Dzogchen Rinpoche.

Ernest Forrester Paton

With consultations from then-prominent Indian leaders like Gandhi and Rajaji, Ernest and Jesudasan established the Christukula Ashram(also Christu-Kula Ashram), family of Christ Ashram, in 1921 at Tirupattur in North Arcot, Tamilnadu—South India.

Gregory Dix

When Hugh Ross Williamson once remarked to him how strange it was that the Anglican episcopate seemed determined to betray their principles in their dealings with South India, he remarked "I really don't see why you should be surprised at the conduct of your fathers-in-God. After all the sign of a Bishop is a crook and of an Archbishop a double-cross."

Indian classical dance

Sabhas are the organizations involved in the promotion of classical art forms in South India.

Indian Theological Seminary

Indian Theological Seminary (ITS) is an interdenominational seminary situated in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, South India.

Inventure Academy

The board of founding trustees comprises the Chairman and Co-Founder of Inventure academy, Mr. Irfan Razack who is also the Managing Director of the Prestige Group, a reputed property development company in South India.

John Bradshaw Gass

From 1917 to 1925 Gass designed the Methodist College at Medak in Andhra Pradesh, south India; which, like Lutyens’ work at New Delhi, is organised in the grand manner around a central axis.

Keshavan

Guruvayur Keshavan (1904–1976), a famous elephant of Kerala, South India

Kumbha of Mewar

A very tall and powerful man, he was about 7 feet tall; he held the Hindu flag flying high in an age when several Hindu kings like Kapilendradeva of east India, Deva Raya II of south India and Man Singh Tomar of central India defeated the Turkic invaders in different parts of India and expanded their kingdoms.

Kuravar

Places like Ramakkalmedu, kuravanmala, Kurinjimala, Idukki arch dam (it is the largest arch dam in Asia) are the places showing the Early ages of Kuravas of South India .

Kuruvilla

Kuruvilla (also spelt as Kuruvila) is a rare Christian First Name from Kerala, South India.

Madras Presidency Legislative Assembly election, 1937

The Governor of Madras, Lord Erskine reported to the then Secretary of State Zetland in February 1937, that the peasants in South India had become fed up with the Justice Party and "every sin of omission or commission of the past fifteen years is put down to them Justice Party".

Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, 1937

The Governor of Madras, Lord Erskine reported to the then Secretary of State Zetland in February 1937, that the peasants in South India had become fed up with the Justice Party and

Malabar rites

The founder of the missions of the interior of South India, Roberto de Nobili, was born in Rome, in 1577, of a noble family from Montepulciano, which numbered among many distinguished relatives the celebrated Cardinal Roberto Bellarmine.

Malgudi

The movie Guide, based on Narayan's novel of the same name, was filmed in Rajasthan, instead of South India, a fact that Narayan was not very happy about.

Mappila Bay

Mappila Bay (or Moppila Bay) is a natural harbor situated in Ayikkara Kannur town, Kerala state of South India.

Narayana Gowda

After 6 years, he returned to Bangalore to join the South India Computer Ltd, a hardware assembly company in Koramangala, and from there moved to the Vysya Bank and from there to start Pushpa Garments and put his hand into financing and the Srimata Audio Cassette company.

Okemos High School

Richa Gangopadhyay, (2004) model, popular lead actress in Indian Cinema, particularly in South India.

Pandiyan

Any of the kings of the Pandyan Dynasty, which ruled South India from pre-historic times until end of the 15th century

Payippadu Vallam Kali

Payippad Vallaarattu, or Jalotsavam, is a three day water festival conducted in Payippad Lake, 35 km from Alappuzha district of Kerala state in south India.

Philippus Baldaeus

The Dutch campaign against the Portuguese began in Jaffna, passing Mannar, Tuticorin and Nagapattinam and ended in South India.

Saheba

Shishunaala Sharif Saheba, 19th-century poet of North Karnataka, South India

Saugor railway station

Hence it lacks connectivity with important places such as all the major cities in South India including Trivendrum, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Pune, Mysore, Coimbatore, Cochin, Kolhapur and Tirupati.

Savadi, Belgaum

Savadi is one of those place in South India, that traces back its history to the Neolithic age.

Sudama

Sudama (सुदामा) (also known as Kuchela, mostly in South India) was a childhood friend of Hindu deity Krishna from Mathura, the story of whose visit to Dwaraka to meet Krishna, is mentioned in the Bhagavata Purana.

Súlur

:For the township in South India, see Sulur.

Suryavarman II

Suryavarman II also sent a mission to the Chola dynasty of south India and presented a precious stone to the Chola Emperor Kulothunga Chola I in 1114 CE.

The New College, Chennai

The college was established by the Muslim Educational Association of Southern India (MEASI) to meet the educational requirements of the Muslim students in South India.

Thomas E. Levy

Levy was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and is a Fellow of the Explorers Club, Levy won the 2011 Lowell Thomas Award for “Exploring the World’s Greatest Mysteries.” With his wife Alina Levy and the Sthapathy traditional craftsmen from the village of Swamimalai, he co-authored the book Masters of Fire - Hereditary Bronze Casters of South India.

Velir

Velirs, a royal house of minor dynastic kings and aristocratic chieftains in Tamilakkam in the early historic period of South India.

Wellington City mayoral election, 2013

Muthu's father served as Mayor of Madurai in south India and was re-elected three times before he decided not to stand again.