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Volume : II, Issue : VIII, September - 2012

Caste System And Caste Practices In Tamil Country

T.Gnanavel and L .Selvamuthu Kumarasami

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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Social life with its religious practices, caste traditions and conventional distinctions continued without any remarkable change throughout the Vijayanagar Rule. Linguistic traditions, pride, prejudice and geographical barriers led to decentralization and there was a struggle for supremacy. The Tamil Society managed to retain many of its traditional cultural traits fairly intact. Its communal ramification and the inter communal dissensions not infrequently descending to the level of violent feuds reached the end of doctrinal developments in religion and philosophy. Changes occurred in the composition of Tamil society during the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries partly due to the influx of various people and to some extent the European merchant settlements on the Coromandel Coast

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T.Gnanavel and L .Selvamuthu Kumarasami , (2012). Caste System And Caste Practices In Tamil Country. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. VIII, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1328.pdf

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