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With the help of contemporary sources, discuss the political and economic development in Sangam age.
- Early State and Society in Eastern India, Deccan and South India
Sangam-age Tamilagam, spanning roughly the third century BCE to the third century CE, is reconstructed from three converging bodies of contemporary evidence — the Sangam anthologies and epics, Graeco-Roman accounts such as the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and the writings of Pliny, Ptolemy and Strabo, and archaeological material from excavated port and inland sites.…
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