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ndia is as heterogeneous as it is populous. A country that speaks over 30 different languages, with 29 different states and yet to the outside world we continue to exist as a unified entity with a Hindi-speaking homogeneity. This is not the case. To the uninitiated, India is a boiling pot of social, political, and colonial angst. While a large number of these struggles are documented and continue to be studied, one vein that is seldom touched upon is the very sensory distance between the dominant Hindi-speaking demographic in the north, and the non-hindi speaking states in the south. It is important to note however that this does not imply a natural divide between the geographic north and south of the country, but rather a cultural distinction between two independent races of people with different historical routes to their Indianness. Indigenous to the subcontinent with possible connections to descendants from West Asia, Dravidians are an ethnic and linguistic group native to South Asia. Despite a momentous Indo-Aryan migration that forever changed the dynamic of the subcontinent, the south for the majority of history
