the isolation resulted in the possibility of describing kumari kandam as a utopian society insulated from external influences and foreign corruption. unlike its description in the kanda puranam, the tamil revivalists depicted kumari kandam as a place free of the upper-caste brahmins, who had come to be identified as descendants of indo-aryans during the dravidian movement. the non-utopian practices of the 20th century tamil hindu society, such as superstitions and caste-based discrimination, were all described as corruption resulting from indo-aryan influence.