Tamilakam

Tamiḻakam (Tamil தமிழகம்) is a Tamil word meaning the Tamil country or the Tamil home. The term was first used in the Purananuru 168.18 as "Thamizhakam". The term has several different connotations:

• In Old Tamil, the term referred to the whole of the Ancient Tamil country, as distinct from the many kingdoms that existed within its boundaries.^[1]

• In modern Tamil usage, the word is generally another name for the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
• In an academic context, the word is sometimes used to refer to a cultural area comprising of the two southern Indian states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala^[2] , and the northeast of Sri Lanka, all of which are, culturally speaking, descendants of the ancient Tamil people.

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