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|[[Kannada language|Kannada]]
|[[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]
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|[[Telugu language|Telugu]]
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'''Southern South Asia''' is a geographical area in [[South Asia]], and is the southern region of [[the subcontinent]]. Depending on definition, it includes the countries of India (particularly [[South India]]), the [[Maldives]], and [[Sri Lanka]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Cardoso |first=Hugo |title=The synchrony and diachrony of an Asian-Portuguese causal morpheme |url=https://www.academia.edu/76842442/The_synchrony_and_diachrony_of_an_Asian_Portuguese_causal_morpheme |journal=Academia}}</ref><ref name=":0">[https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/balances-and-benefits-in-the-southern-south-asia/ Balances and benefits in Southern South Asia: The Maldives and Sri Lanka in 2021] https://www.orfonline.org/ Aditya Gowdara Shivamurthy</ref> It is predominantly [[Dravidian peoples|Dravidian]].<ref>[https://www.asianz.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Future-Potential-and-the-Invisible-Diaspora-New-Zealand-and-South-Asia-diaspora.pdf Future potential and the invisible diaspora: New Zealand and South Asia diasporas] https://www.asianz.org.nz/ Robert Didham</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Eurasian Literature through the Eighteenth Century |url=https://academic.oup.com/book/12757 |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=academic.oup.com}}</ref>

Southern South Asia is noted for being the most culturally distinct region of South Asia from [[Northern South Asia]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pillalamarri |first=Akhilesh |title=The Geopolitics of South Asian Political Stability |url=https://thediplomat.com/2014/12/the-geopolitics-of-south-asian-political-stability/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=thediplomat.com |language=en-US}}</ref> with greater gender equality.<ref>[http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/asiavol4.pdf Encyclopedia of Modern Asia] http://www.sabrizain.org/ David Levinson and Karen Christensen</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Agarwal |first=Bina |date= |title=Women's Land Rights and the Trap of Neo-Conservatism: A Response to Jackson |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1471-0366.00067 |journal=Journal of Agrarian Change |language=en |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=571–585 |doi=10.1111/1471-0366.00067 |issn=1471-0358}}</ref> There is significant competition between India and China for influence over the island nations of the region.<ref name=":0" />

== History ==
Southern South Asia was a hub of global trade in ancient times because of its position in the important [[Indian Ocean]] corridor.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrick Roberts Made National Geographic 'Explorer' |url=https://www.shh.mpg.de/1827734/patrick-roberts-nat-geo-explorer-grant |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=www.shh.mpg.de |language=en}}</ref> For example, a significant number of [[Roman commerce|Roman products]] have been discovered in the region.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Hoppál |first=Krisztina |last2=Bellina |first2=Bérénice |last3=Dussubieux |first3=Laure |date=2023-09-07 |title=Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean World at the Turn of the First Millennium ce: Networks, Commodities and Cultural Reception |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-archaeological-journal/article/southeast-asia-and-the-mediterranean-world-at-the-turn-of-the-first-millennium-ce-networks-commodities-and-cultural-reception/1F34EB90DD00A9F1045137BA977D2531 |journal=Cambridge Archaeological Journal |language=en |pages=1–24 |doi=10.1017/S0959774323000264 |issn=0959-7743}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Dalrymple |first=William |title=Garum Masala {{!}} William Dalrymple |language=en |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/20/garum-masala-indian-ocean-trade-in-antiquity-cobb/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0028-7504}}</ref>

Governments throughout Southern South Asia adopted [[Sanskrit]] for public political expression beginning around 300 CE and ending around 1300, resulting in greater integration into the broader [[Greater India|South Asian cultural sphere]].<ref>[http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-BJ001/bj001564378.pdf Comparing East Asian and Southeast Asian Buddhism: Looking at Traditional China from the Margins] http://buddhism.lib.ntu.edu.tw/ John R. McRae</ref> This significantly influenced the languages of the region, making all of the major Dravidian languages except for Tamil highly [[Sanskritisation|Sanskritised]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=Setting the record straight |work=The Economist |url=https://www.economist.com/johnson/2013/05/13/setting-the-record-straight |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bureau |first=The Hindu |date=2023-01-07 |title=Sanskrit is the mother of all Indian languages: Bhyrappa |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/sanskrit-is-the-mother-of-all-indian-languages-bhyrappa/article66350430.ece |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0971-751X}}</ref>

Artisanal production of handicraft articles, metal-working (see [[Wootz steel]]) and cloth production were historically important features of the economy in Southern South Asia.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mielants |first=Eric H. |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt14bt31n |title=The Origins of Capitalism and the "Rise of the West" |date=2007 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-59213-575-2}}</ref>

Tamil influence in the region is quite significant, with prominent empires such as the [[Chola dynasty]] taking Tamil culture to Sri Lanka and beyond South Asia, and Sri Lanka having an ancient [[Sri Lankan Tamils|Tamil minority]] and a Dravidian-influenced majority language of [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-31 |title=The Sri Lankan Civil War and Its History, Revisited in 2020 |url=https://hir.harvard.edu/sri-lankan-civil-war/ |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Harvard International Review |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Perera |first=Sasanka |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xzBREAAAQBAJ&pg=PA99 |title=Against the Nation: Thinking Like South Asians |last2=Pathak |first2=Dev Nath |last3=Kumar |first3=Ravi |date=2021-12-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-93-89812-33-6 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kamalakaran |first=Ajay |date=2022-03-23 |title=How a unique Tamil dialect survived among a fishing community in Sri Lanka |url=https://scroll.in/magazine/1020026/how-a-unique-tamil-dialect-survived-among-a-fishing-community-in-sri-lanka |access-date=2023-10-05 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}</ref> Chola innovations include various techniques for water resource management,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Angelakis |first=Andreas N. |date=2014 |title=Evolution of Sanitation and Wastewater Technologies through the Centuries |url=https://www.academia.edu/26736892/Evolution_of_Sanitation_and_Wastewater_Technologies_through_the_Centuries |journal=Water Intelligence Online |volume=13 |issn=1476-1777}}</ref> some of which are used today to restore lakes throughout India.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-09-25 |title=‘Lake Man’ relies on ancient methods to ease water crisis |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/lake-man-relies-on-ancient-methods-to-ease-water-crisis/articleshow/103916870.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2023-10-05 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref> During British rule, [[Madras]] (now Chennai) became the center of the region, and a stability was created that benefitted Tamils throughout the region; Tamils were also favoured by the British in Sri Lanka over the Sinhalese people of the island. This laid the foundation for resentment and later [[Ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka|ethnic conflict]] in Sri Lanka which lasted for decades.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Williams |first=Victoria R. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OxnOEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT1502 |title=Indigenous Peoples: An Encyclopedia of Culture, History, and Threats to Survival, Volumes 1-4 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=979-8-216-10219-9 |language=en}}</ref>

== See also ==

* [[South India]]
** [[Tamilakam]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}{{South Asian topics}}
[[Category:South Asia]]

Southern South Asia - Revision history

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