Money & Markets
A peek inside the thriving Tamil economy some 800 years agoThe 1,000 years from the age of Sangam literature to the end of the Chola empire were truly the millennium of the Tamil merchants. The resilience of the Tamil merchants, mercantile institutions and trade over more than a 1,000 years, notwithstanding social and political change within the region and in the larger world of maritime commerce, can be attributed to several factors.
Updated July 20, 20226 min read