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Discuss the salient features of cultural traditions of South India as reflected in Sangam Literature.
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- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
Sangam literature reflects a society with distinctive cultural traditions, one which celebrated war and love in equal measure — and it is precisely this dual celebration, formalised into an explicit literary theory and carried through a distinctive social vocabulary of clan, belief, and heroism, that gives early Tamil culture its most salient and recognisable features.
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- Akam and Puram: The Governing Literary Convention
- Material Culture Embedded in Poetic Convention
- Social Vocabulary: Varna, Kuti, and Ananku
- The Warrior Ethic and Its Commemoration
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