Sangam Literature and South India
Introduction to early Tamil society through the Sangam poems and the Chola, Chera, and Pandya kingdoms.
Key Questions
- 1What is Sangam literature?
- 2How was life in the South different from the North during this time?
- 3Who were the Muventar?
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