History of the Tamils: From the Earliest Times to 600 A.D.

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Asian Educational Services, 2001 - India - 635 pages
 

Contents

Introduction
li
Chronology
lvi
Fisherfolk
11
Intercourse with North India in the early
17
Foreign trade in early times
36
Kennedy on Ancient trade
42
Literary conventions and the life of the people
63
The evolution of literary conventions
69
Earliest Tamil poetry extant
149
Life of the Tamil people 500 B C to 1 B C
162
Foreign trade from 600 B C to 14 A D
192
The first intrusion of Sanskrit culture
207
The Three Tamil Sangams
225
The first halfmillennium A D Life
253
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293
Foreign trade in the first half millen
301

The five tribes in Northern India
83
Foreign trade in the II Millennium B C
96
The Rise of the Agamas
103
North India and South India 1000 B C
116
Foreign trade 1000500 B C
129
North and South India 5001 B C
135
The District of Kāñcipura
322
Karikal
334
Pallava? by K R Subrahmania Iyer
383
Śōla kings after Karikāl
406
Nalangilli
417
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