INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Sangam literature is the name given to the earliest available Tamil literature. The Sangam age roughly extends between 300 BC and 300 AD*, although most of the work is believed to have been composed between 100 CE and 250 CE. The word ‘Sangam’ literally means association.

Detailed explanation-3: -Tamil literature is known as Sangam literature because they were composed and compiled in associations called Sangams.

Detailed explanation-4: -Tamil tradition holds the earliest Sangam poetry to be over twelve millennia old. Modern linguistic scholarship places the poems between the 3rd century BCE and the 2nd century CE. Sangam age is considered by the Tamil people as the golden era of Tamil language.

Detailed explanation-5: -The language used in the literature of Sangam period was Tamil. The Sangam literature is the historic evidence of indigenous literary developments in South India in parallel to Sanskrit, and the classical status of the Tamil language.