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Sangam literature reflects a society with its distinctive cultural traditions, one which celebrated war and love. Explain.

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

The corpus of classical Tamil poetry compiled in the Sangam anthologies organizes itself around a single formal binary — akam (the "interior") and puram (the "exterior") — and this binary is not incidental to the literature but constitutive of it. To explain how Sangam literature celebrates war and love is therefore to explain how early…

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  • The Akam-Puram Architecture
  • Akam: Love Mapped onto Landscape
  • Puram: The Warrior Ethic and the Cult of Glory
  • Historians on the Sangam Ethos
  • Puram as Social Record

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