Tamil Nadu

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History

Tamilnadu has a hoary antiquity. though early sangam classics throw vague historical references only from the pallavas we pass to recorded history.South India had remained under the hegemony of the cholas ,the cheras and the pandyas  for centuries.the pallavas held supremacy from about the second quarter of the fourth century  AD.They were the originators of the famous dravidian style of temple architecture.The last pallava ruler was Aparajita in whose region the later cholas under vijayalaya and aditya asserted themselves by about 10 century.At the end of 11th century he state was ruled by several dynasties like the chalukyas ,Cholas and pandyas.During the two centuries that followed the imperial cholas gained paramountcy over the south India. Muslim gradually strengthen their position ,which led to the establishment of the Bahmani sultanate by the middle of the 14th century.Tamil Nadu was one of the first of british settlement in india.The state in the successor of the old madras presidency which in 1901 covered the bulk of the southern Peninsula,The composite  madras state was later reorganized and the present tamilnadu was formed.  

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