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@article{208297,
        author = {M. Lakshman Venkat and Dr. K. Madeswaran},
        title = {Civil Society and the Reproduction of Dravidian Hegemony in Tamil Nadu: A Gramscian Analysis},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {13},
        number = {4},
        pages = {1313-1318},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=208297},
        abstract = {Tamil Nadu’s political framework is best interpreted as a persistent struggle over civil society, rather than a record of electoral dominance. Dravidian political leadership continues to be a normalised landscape and common knowledge. Referring to Antonio Gramsci's theory of civil society and hegemony, it is worth considering hegemony as a blend of cohesion and consent, applied in parallel in the political model and cultural spheres, and kept alive when everyday norms absorb disagreement instead of simply suppressing it. It explores how Tamil Nadu’s civil society built and sustained a regional political common sense that overcame individual leaders and traces its position from three distinct civil society platforms: schools and language policy, media and associated life, and the ritual of everyday public culture. Its role is to move the study of Tamil politics beyond the electoral system.},
        keywords = {Gramsci, Civil Society, Hegemony, Common Sense, Tamil Nadu, Dravidian movement, Language Policy},
        month = {September},
        }