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The Sangam texts mention categories of people living in the villages. Identify the categories: A. Masattuvan Choose the correct answer from the options given below: |
A, B, C only B, C, D only C, D, E only A, C, E only |
C, D, E only |
The correct answer is Option (3) → C, D, E only The Sangam texts mention categories of people living in the villages: A. Masattuvan Early Tamil literature (the Sangam texts) also mentions different categories of people living in the villages – large landowners or Vellalar, ploughmen or uzhavar and slaves or adimai. It is likely that these differences were based on differential access to land, labour, and some of the new technologies. In such a situation, questions of control over land must have become crucial, as these were often discussed in legal texts. |
