Southern India: Polity, Administration, Society and Art (500 – 750 A.D.)

The institutions of southern India were more firmly established at the time of Pallavas and maintained a remarkable continuity. The Pallava period saw the culmination of what had been a gradual process of assimilation of Aryan institutions, that of Aryan ideas being limited to the upper strata of society. Amongst the rest, there was a mixed interaction in which the indigenous culture sought to assert itself.