How can we define one as a Tamilian? Can we have some precise definition?

 Nandakumar

1.Tamil is a language and Tamizhian is an ethnicity.

2. To define Tamizhian based on language is futile.

Language is not Ethnicity:

It is highlighted in one of “Neeya Naana” show nicely that,

Even Marwadi descendants living in Chennai for generations and educated in institutions in TN, speak Tamil fluently, professionally as they are native speakers. Even some ladies composed poems like Diamond Pearl.

The same show highlighted, children born to Tamizh Parents living in West Bengal could not read or write Tamil and the worst thing is that they could not speak fluently, but understood some extent spoken tamil.

So,

Language: There are three categories of speakers.

Native Speakers

Secondary Speakers

Tertiary Speakers

Ethnicity is the one defines Tamizhian:

3. Tamizhian is an ethnicity- who unconsciously follow typical belief, tradition, culture due to their heridity or due to their genetic make up.

Definition of Genetic Purity:

Genetic purity refers to trueness to type, or the degree of contamination of seeds caused by undesired genetic varieties or species. The success of seed production is dependent on the genetic purity of parental lines.

Law of the World: Refresh the gene pool'

4.Want a legal proof: An Indian judgment on Parsis.

A 1908 judgement in the Bombay High Court reiterated that "Parsi" is an ethnic entity restricted to the descendants of those Persian refugees, though logic may look askance at such racial purity maintained over a millennium.

The judges had added that the child of a mixed marriage could be included in this definition only when the father is Parsi. (One is born Parsi, but becomes Zoroastrian after the initiating "navjot" ceremony).

Scholars, liberals - and intermarried women - have protested such discrimination, and nullifying it would improve the numbers and refresh the gene pool.

But the argument has always been battened down, not just by the orthodoxy but the larger paranoia.

"Reform" is a dirty, even treacherous, word for reasons more self-serving than sacred.

Parsis fear that their envied communal legacy will be appropriated by "half castes". Intermarriage accounts for 38%, and is growing.

My take is same as that of World’s view that Tamizhian is one whose Father and Mother are Tamizhians by birth and descendants of Tamizhs of racial purity- wherever they live and whatever languages they speak.

The child of a mixed marriage could be included in this definition only when the father is a Tamizhian.