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21 avril 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.ifp.7901
- isbn: 9788184701166
- eisbn: 9791036556210
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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littérature tamoule langue tamoule langues dravidiennes Tamil literature Tamil language Dravidian languages South India Asian Studies Humanities, Multidisciplinary HIS003000 LIT008000 DSB HBJFSujets proches
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Y. Subbarayalu, « Eṟivīrapaṭṭiṉam, Warriors and the State in Medieval South India », Institut Français de Pondichéry, ID : 10.4000/books.ifp.7901
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The study of corporate bodies of various sorts has taken a significant place in the historiography of medieval south India. Among these corporate bodies, the Ayyāvoḷe Five Hundred (Ayyāvoḷe ainūṟuvar in Kannada and Aiyappoḻil ainūṟṟuvar in Tamil), supposed to be a guild of itinerant merchants met with all over south India, has been studied by several scholars as an economic and social institution. There are still some crucial gaps in our knowledge pertaining to this and the related bodies, pa...