History of India: ancient and medieval / Post-Mauryan India and the Sangam age
Sangam age: Tamilakam and its kingdoms
Practise 4 PYQsConcepts to cover
- The three crowned kings: Cheras (Senguttuvan, Udiyanjeral), Cholas (Karikala), Pandyas (Nedunjeliyan)
- Society in Sangam poems: tinai landscapes, varna known to poets, warrior ethic, magic and material life
- Royal customs: vattakirutal (defeated king starves to death), virakkal hero stones, veli and puram
- Ports Korkai, Puhar (Poompuhar), Muchiri (Muziris), Arikamedu; Roman gold and pepper trade; yavanas
- End of the Sangam age and the Kalabhra interregnum before Pallavas and Pandyas