The Dravidian University, Kuppam, Chittoor district, Andhra Pradesh, India was founded on 20 October, 1997 by the Government of Andhra Pradesh, with the initial support extended by the governments of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Kerala for an integrated development of Dravidian languages. Kuppam is a town in Andhra Pradesh that is 150 km from Bangalore and 180 km from Chennai. ... Chittoor   (Telugu :చిత్తూరు), also known as Chittur, is a city and district of Indias Andhra Pradesh state. ... Andhra Pradesh  : (Telugu: ఆంధ్ర ప్రదేశ్, Urdu: آندھرا پردیش, IPA: ), is a state in southern India. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Tamil Nadu (தமிழ் நாடு, Land of the Tamils) is a state at the southern tip of India. ... Karnātakā   (Kannada: ಕನಾ೯ಟಕ) (IPA: ) is one of the four southern states of India. ... Kerala ( ; Malayalam: കേരളം; ) is a state on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India. ... The Dravidian family of languages includes approximately 73 languages[1] that are mainly spoken in southern India and northeastern Sri Lanka, as well as certain areas in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and eastern and central India, as well as in parts of Afghanistan and Iran, and overseas in other countries such...

Dravidologist V.I. Subramoniam was Pro-Chancellor 1997-2000, and P.V. Arunachalam was the first Vice-Chancellor 1997-2001).

It offers courses in

• Comparative Dravidian Literature And Translation Studies
• Human And Social Sciences
• Education And Human Resources Development
• Comparative Dravidian Arts And Aesthetics
• Science, Information And Technology

External links

• http://www.dravidianuniversity.ac.in/