Independent Dravidian state, relations with India and Pakistan

How would relations with an independent Dravidian state be with their northern neighbor, India, and their northern neighbor's rival, Pakistan?
 

CaliGuy

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It would depend on whether or not this Dravidian state would have any territorial claims on India.

As for Pakistan, I suspect that relations would be relatively good with it.
 

longsword14

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Which Dravidian state ? When and how is it formed ?
Along which lines has it been split? A serious split based on language could mean that there would be more than one split in the south.
 
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One assumes that the green pockets in the above map are specifically not included. Also, I assume that you're not talking about seizing chunks of Sri Lanka/Ceylon

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Basically Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Mahe?
 
There can be no such split. If a linguistic movement happens then all of it will break apart : Tamil, Telugu (even Telangana), Kannada, Malayalam will get theirs.

Why Dravidia couldn't remain as unified nation? Even Pakistan and India are unified nations despite their multinationality.
 
There can be no such split. If a linguistic movement happens then all of it will break apart : Tamil, Telugu (even Telangana), Kannada, Malayalam will get theirs.
Not necessarily. If South India was created as a separate country based on the four Dravidian languages it would have remained united as in the case of OTL India. But the fact was that there was no strong Dravidian movement for a separate Dravidian country.
India has a single dominant language continuum - Hindi.
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I don't think that Hindi is serving as a unifying vehicle. It is spoken by only one third of Indians and it was chosen as national language by just one vote. The opposition to Hindi became stronger after it was designated as the national language. It is not only the speakers of Dravidian languages that oppose the imposition of Hindi but the speakers of Bengali, Punjabi, Marathi etc. are also against the domination of Hindi.
Marathi people consider themselves as North Indians and they would have not preferred to be a part of the South in 1947. But if the choice is in 2017 I think they would opt to be a part of the South India. This is because of the comparative progress made by the southern states in recent years. The Hindi speaking states of Rajasthan,Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chchathisgarh etc. are far behind in social and economic development when compared to the South. The average PCI of the South India is double that of the North India.
 
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