Ancient Tamilakam was a country of villages, and each village was a self-contained unit with farms, orchards, water sources, cottage…

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Ancient Tamilakam was a country of villages, and each village was a self-contained unit with farms, orchards, water sources, cottage…
Kaveri-Poom-Pattinam, also known as Poom-Puhar, was the capital of the Cholas in ancient Tamilakam. Now, the city lies below the…
Vanchi was the ancient capital of the Chera Kingdom in southwest India and that famed city’s layout provides insights to…
The king prepared the ground and orchestrated the call to arms. It was customary of the king to lead in…
From what little we know, ancient Tamilakam did not produce treatises on the art and science of war. This is…
Just as the family was the basic building block of society, the village was the basic administrative unit in ancient…
The learned people of ancient South India strove to master the 64 arts of life, what we might refer to…
The (royal, governing, advisory) Council included five people who represented five groups plus one important individual: Chief Minister: civil administration…
The early kings of ancient South India were not autocrats. They faced a system of checks and balances from the…
The notion of state rested in kingdoms and according to the norms of Tamilakam, these had seven constituents: Land Suitable…