Why Tamil needed a movement to reclaim its musical legacy?

From Silapathikaram to the Tamil Isai movement, how a language with deep musical roots reclaimed its place in Carnatic music.
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For a language that had almost a continuous association with music since the Silapathikaram, Tamil was sidelined in Carnatic concerts — until visionaries of the “Thamil ...

During the height of the Tamil Isai movement, when Sabhas, musicians and patrons were daggers drawn and hurling imprecations at each other, the Madras Music Academy invited Ariyakudi Ramanuja Iyengar ...