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Chennai, formerly Madras, city (1991 pop. 5,421,985), capital
of Tamil Nadu state, SE India, on the Bay of Bengal. A commercial,
railway, and manufacturing center, Chennai has large textile
mills, chemical and automobile plants, and tanneries. Providing
offshore and back-office services to foreign corporations is
also an important industry. Together with docks and warehouses,
its harbor provides modern transportation linkages to peninsular
India. A cultural center, the city is the seat of the Univ.
of Madras (1857), institutes of dance and music, and a number
of museums. There are many large public buildings; a famous
shore drive, the Marina; and Guindy National Park. Near Chennai
is Mt. St. Thomas, the traditional site of the martyrdom (A.D.
68) of St. Thomas, the apostle. He is said to be buried in Chennai
at the Cathedral of St. Thomé.
The city, as Madras, became an important British trading center,
growing largely around Fort St. George, a British outpost (1645)
at the site of an earlier British settlement (1639) that became
the seat of the British East India Company until 1773 and the
capital of the Madras presidency (1653). The French captured
Madras in 1746, but the British recovered it two years later.
The presidency became a province (1937) and, with Indian independence,
a state (1950), renamed Tamil Nadu in 1969. In 1996 the city
was renamed Chennai, after Chennapatnam, a precolonial village
near the original British outpost. Coastal areas of the city
were hit by the Dec., 2004, Indian Ocean tsunami.
| Kummi is one
of the most important and ancient forms of village dances
of Tamilnadu. It originated when there were no musical
instruments, with the participants clapping their hands
to keep time. This is performed .by women; many varieties
of Kummi, such as, Poonthatti Kumii, Deepa Kummi, Kulavai
Kummi, Kadir Kummi, Mulaipari Kummi etc. are known.The
Women stand in a circle and dance clapping their hands
rhythmically to lilting songs. This dance is usually performed
during temple festivals, Pongal, the harvest festival,
family function like the one to celebrate the coming of
age (onset of puberty) of the girl-child etc. The first
line of the song is sung by the leading lady, which the
other repeat. Read More.....
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