INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Some of the earliest works in Tamil came to be known as Sangam literature. These earliest works were composed around 2300 years ago. These texts were called Sangam because they were supposed to have been composed and complied in assemblies of poets.

Detailed explanation-2: -Tolkāppiyam, also romanised as Tholkaappiyam (Tamil: , lit. “ancient poem"), is the most ancient extant Tamil grammar text and the oldest extant long work of Tamil literature.

Detailed explanation-3: -sangam literature, sangam also spelled cankam, chankam, or shangam, the earliest writings in the Tamil language, thought to have been produced in three chankams, or literary academies, in Madurai, India, from the 1st to the 4th century ce.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ancient Tamil literature goes back to the Sangam Era. The greatest literary works in ancient Tamil literature are: Ettuthogai (Eight anthologies), Pathupattu (ten idylls)