You false flagger, have you ever been to Tamil Nadu? Tamilians follow Hinduism to the core.. They may not be as assertive in guarding their religion from the barbaric religions but when it comes to their everyday activities their every step involves religion
can you define what constitutes Hinduism ?
Where in the Tamil religious texts - Saivite Tevarams or vaisnavite 4000 Divya Prabandhams , Tamils are referred to as Hindus ?
Tamils not Hindus -Pontiff of Madurai
they being not assertive (except for minority TamBrahmins and Tamil sanghis e.g Hindu Munnani nut cases) is good enough proof that they have no affiliation to Indian's Hinduism . Btw, its Tamils religions that got appropriated by the Aryan barbarians
The Aryan Vedic god Rudra became identified with the Dravidian deity Sivan. The facilitations on either side existed to make this gradual mutual identification possible. Thus, by the time of the shaivAgamAs and the purANAs, the two were treated as one god.
In Rig Veda VII:21:5, the god Indra is invoked by the Aryans to protect them from the worshipers of shishna (male procreative organ) who came to disturb their yaj~jas (fire sacrifices). Again, in Rig Veda X:99:3, the deity Indra is praised as the slayer of shishna worshippers. Sivan was a very popular and powerful Dravidian god, whose widespread worship, the Vedic Aryans could not ignore. When he got identified with the Vedic Rudra through a gradual assimilation process, there was struggle to accept him by the Vedic Aryans as the story of Dhaksha-prajApati depicts.
https://ruthaavaree.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/saivism_hebbar.pdf
P/s Dravidian mentioned above = Tamils , not South Indians e.g Mallus, Telugus etc
back in the 1800s Tamil have rejected the Indians attempt to label them as Hindu f
swami Vivekananda at Trivandrum in December 1892
One remark of Professor Sundaram Pillai — that, as a Dravidian, he considered himself entirely outside the Hindu polity — put him somewhat out of court with the Swami, who, later on, remarked of him that eminent as he was as a scholar, he had thoughtlessly given himself away to the sway of race prejudice, which already during his travels the Swami had noted as an unpleasant characteristic of certain South Indian minds of the unbalanced or mediocre type.
Note : Prof Sundaram Pillai , penned the Tamil National Anthem, was a Prof in Philosophy in Tirvandrum University
http://pazhayathu.blogspot.my/2013/09/swami-vivekananda-at-trivandrum-in.html
The 'greatest' Hindu swami of the 19th Century, who spoke in Chicago on Hinduism, could not argue with Prof Sundaram upfront that Tamil are not Hindus , had to resort to back biting ..