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How far the Sangam literature acts as a window into the social and cultural traditions of ancient South India?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India

The most probable date of the Sangam corpus has been fixed between the third century BCE and the third century CE on the strength of literary, archaeological, and numismatic evidence together — and it is precisely this convergence of independent evidence that lets historians assess "how far" the corpus can be trusted as a window…

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  • Where the Corpus Opens the Widest
  • Where the Window Narrows
  • Where the Corpus Is Strongest on Cultural Tradition Specifically

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