The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c10.s1.t6.2

c10.s1.t6.2

According to Pliny, in the first century A. C., Mâdurâ, the capital of the Pândya kingdom in the farthest south, although an inland town, was in commercial and political touch with the Roman Empire through ports on the Malabar Coast (Western). Its cultural pre-eminence was marked by the activities of the *Sangam* (Academy) of Tamil literature.