Carnatic region

Carnatic (English Carnatic ) is an obsolete term for a landscape in southern India. For Carnatic heard the territory between the Eastern Ghats and the Coromandel coast. The Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 belongs to the Carnatic the former districts of Nellore, Chingleput, North Arcot, South Arcot, Tanjore, Trichinopoly, Madura and Tinnevelly. This corresponds to the largest part of the current state of Tamil Nadu and the southern part of Andhra Pradesh.

Carnatic is the Germanized form of English Carnatic. This in turn provides an Anglicization of the Sanskrit name Karnataka ( Karnataka ) dar. Originally, the term referred to the Kannada - speaking region in the southwestern part of the highlands of the Deccan, in accordance with the present state of Karnataka. The Sanskrit name Karnata and Karnataka appear early in the ancient Indian literature ( as in the epic Mahabharata and the Bhagavata ) as the name of a country and the people living there. It is derived from the Dravidian words karu for " black" and Natu for " land" and refers to the black soil of the Deccan Highlands. Also, the Kannada language name ( Kannada ) or Kannada has the same etymological origin. The Muslims, who ruled from the 14th century parts of the Deccan, widened the term also to the southeast plains located below the Eastern Ghats. During the British colonial period the Anglicized term Carnatic was finally concentrated in the 18th and 19th centuries, the latter meaning. At the same time over Kannada also of Karnata (ka ) was transferred derived name Canara on the narrow coastal strip to the west.

The term Carnatic to be found in the name of the Carnatic wars that fought Britain and France in the 18th century in the region, as well as the ruling dynasty of the Nawabs of the Carnatic, which are known as Nawab of Arcot usually after their residence Arcot, and not least the name Carnatic music for the southern of the two main directions of classical Indian music. As a geographical term Carnatic but is now no longer in use. In contrast, the state formed by the boundaries of language Kannada Mysore was renamed Karnataka in 1973. Thus, the term was transferred back to its original meaning in its Sanskrit form.