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“Not only does ancient Tamil literature furnish an accurate picture of widely disparate classes, it also describes the social condition of Tamil country as it was.” Discuss.
- UPSC 2015
- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
The claim divides naturally into two parts — that Sangam literature maps a genuinely wide social spectrum, and that its account of social conditions is trustworthy rather than merely decorative — and the corpus, read through its own internal classificatory schemes and its unusually candid treatment of everyday life, substantiates both.
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- An Accurate Picture of Widely Disparate Classes
- The Social Condition of Tamil Country
- Women
- Marriage
- Prostitution
- Dress, Dwellings, Food, and Entertainment
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