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Thanks bro for the excellent and informative piece. Truly very enriching. Now I know about the Cholas and Pallavas.
There may be some connection in Thailand too. Many of their names are Indian sounding, eg Rama, Vishnu, etc...
The fact is 99% of Indians themselves do not know this aspect of their history.Because their history text books never mentions thus.Bodhidharma is well known in China,Vietnam ,Thailand and Japan.He is very much revered here and has many temples that worships him.But hardly anybody is aware of his existence in his own country of birth in Tamilnadu.
Because of the North/South divide in India.Dravidian culture and history is very much suppressed by N.Indian Aryan culture and their history.In fact,ancient China and Dravidian empires had ambassadors in each other courts.Whereas N.Indians are closer culturally to wheat eating Central and Middle East...But rice eating Dravidians and S.Chinese are quite close even in their DNA.