Telugu, the
language spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, is the third most spoken
language across the country, after Hindi and Bengali. In Tamil Nadu it is the 2nd
most spoken language, after Tamil. Over 15 to 20% of the population of Tamil
Nadu consists of a combination of Telugu speaking people and people who are
descendants of erstwhile Telugu speaking people. Most of the Telugu people who
today reside in Tamil Nadu are descendants of administrators, religious
scholars, artists and Hindu priests who migrated during the rule of the
Vijayanagar Empire and later during the British Raj.
Chennai, erstwhile Madras, was an invisible
mixture of Tamil and Telugu cultures back in 1953. The states of Andhra Pradesh
and Tamil Nadu were one for many years before their partition and hence there
are almost as many Telugu people today as there are Tamilians in the city of
Chennai. The partition was a result of an attempt to protect the interests of
the Telugu speaking population in Madras. The protests finally led to the once large
state of Madras being broken up into different regions (Andhra, Karnataka,
Kerala and Tamil Nadu) on linguistic basis.
As per statistics
there are approximately over 110 million Telugu speaking people spread across
the entire world today, out of which approximately 6 million are a part of
Tamil Nadu. To be more specific, approximately less than 19% of the population
of Chennai are Telugu speaking people, i.e., around 0.8 million Telugu speaking
people in a city of a total of about 4.7 million people. From 12% of the
population in 2006 to a little less that 19% today, the Telugu speaking
population in Chennai has been gradually rising. This is majorly owing to the
IT boom in Chennai, which has led to the migration of people, from those parts
of Andhra that border the state of Tamil Nadu, into Chennai.
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