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How do recent archaeological findings and Sangam literary texts enlighten us about the early state and society in South India?
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- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
The megalithic culture that immediately precedes and overlaps the Sangam age supplies the material foundation — settlement, technology, subsistence, and the first signs of ranked authority — on which the political world the Sangam corpus describes was built; reading the two together lets historians trace early South Indian state and society as an actual process…
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- The Megalithic Foundation: What Archaeology Recovers
- Where Archaeology and Sangam Texts Meet
- The Political World the Sangam Corpus Describes
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