The Pandyan Kingdom from the Earliest Times to the Sixteenth Century c2.1

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| CHAP. | | PAGE |
| | PREFACE | iii |
| I. | INTRODUCTORY. SOURCES ... ... ... | 1-12 |
| II. | EARLY REFERENCES. THE AGE OF THE ŚANGAM | 13-24 |
| III. | THE PĀNDYAN KINGDOM IN THE ŚANGAM AGE... | 25-36 |
| IV. | THE TRANSITION TO THE FIRST EMPIRE. THE KALABHRAS . . . . . | 37-49 |
| V. | THE FIRST EMPIRE . . . . . | 50-67 |
| VI. | THE FIRST EMPIRE.—(Continued) ... ... | 68-82 |
| VII. | THE FIRST EMPIRE.—(Concluded) ... ... | 83-98 |
| VIII. | THE CHOLA CONQUEST ... ... ... | 99-117 |
| IX. | THE END OF CHOLA ASCENDANCY: CIVIL WAR AND RECOVERY ... ... ... | 118-137 |
| X. | THE PĀNDYAS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE (1190-1238) . . . . . | 138-156 |
| XI. | MĀRAVARMAN SUNDARA (acc. A.D. 1238)—JATĀ- VARMAN SUNDARA (acc. A.D. 1251) ... ... | 157-173 |
| XII. | JATĀVARMAN VĪRA PĀNDYA (acc. A.D. 1253)— MĀRAVARMAN KULAŚEKHARA (acc. A.D. 1268)... | 174-187 |
| XIII. | JATĀVARMAN SUNDARA PĀNDYA (acc. 1276)— MĀRAVARMAN VIKRAMA PĀNDYA (acc. 1283)— SOCIAL LIFE AT THE END OF THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY—MARCO POLO ... ... ... | 188-200 |
| XIV. | THE LAST YEARS OF MĀRAVARMAN KULA- ŚEKHARA (1268)—JATĀVARMAN VĪRA PĀNDYA (acc. 1296-7)—JATĀVARMAN SUNDARA PĀNDYA (acc. 1303)—THE MUHAMMADAN INVASION ... | 201-214 |
| XV. | ADMINISTRATION AND SOCIAL LIFE UNDER THE PĀNDYAS OF THE SECOND EMPIRE ... ... | 215-239 |
| XVI. | THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY AND LATER—DE- CLINE AND END . . . . . | 240-252 |
| | ADDITIONAL NOTES . . . . . | 253-257 |
| | CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY ... ... ... | 258-260 |
| | BIBLIOGRAPHY . . . . . | 261-263 |
| | INDEX . . . . . | 265-277 |