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The accurate picture of the complex sociocultural milieu of Peninsular India is presented in the early Sangam literature. Delineate.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India

The Sangam corpus — traditionally the product of three successive academies (Sangams) convened under Pandyan patronage, of which only the Tolkappiyam and the poetry gathered in the Ettutogai, Pattuppattu, and Pathinenkilkanakku collections substantially survive — offers a picture of Peninsular India that is genuinely composite: religious belief, the interplay between northern and southern cultural streams,…

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