Tamilnadu had a unique civilization unique in the sense, it was the most most chaotically recorded civlisationin the history of whole India. For a very long time the tiny tail like part of the Indian subcontinent was about of bounds for most of the invaders beyond the Vindhya -Sathpura hill ranges. This hill range cuts the Indian subcontinent into two Uththarapada ( Northern part )and Dakshinapada ( southern part) except for a linear vertical strip of land inthe west and east along the coastline.
These coast lines are called as eastern coast and western coast. But they have other names too which are more poetic and descriptive of the geopolitical history of the land . The West coast is better known as Arabian seacoastand .. the easrtern coast is called as the coromandel coast named in the glory of the Chola dynasty. The only one dynasty in the entire...