 Advocates of purism popularised Tamil literature and advocated for it, organising rallies in villages and towns and making Tamil purism a political issue.The logical extension of this effort was to purge Tamil of the Sanskrit influence (including its negative social perceptions, which they believed to keep the Tamils in a state of economic, cultural, and political servitude) seen as making Tamil susceptible to northern political domination.Anti-Sanskrit and anti-Hindi Tamil Nadu policies brought them into conflicts with the Brahmins, who supported North Indian languages even while they lived in Tamil Nadu.