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Greek drama means something in the history of ancient India. If you want to know the exact meaning, history, etymology or English translation of this term then check out the descriptions on this page. Add your comment or reference to a book if you want to contribute to this summary article.

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Source: archive.org: Journal of the Madras University, vol.28 (history)

Greek drama bears striking similarity with the picture drawn of that age by South-Indian Tamil poets of the Sangam age.— Music and dancing occupy a really large place in South Indian poesy and in fact the South Indian of these early days was far superior to his Western counterpart. The very number of ragas and dances described with all the punctiliousness of a connoisseur by the poets of the Sangam times is astounding to the modern reader, though in the art of the drama alone the Greeks would appear to have reached a position perhaps superior to the Tamils.

In South India of this period we hear largely only about the kuthu (which might have been a dance-drama) though many varieties of it are described in the poems of the day. What was the excellence reached by the Tamil drama vis-a-vis the Western drama of the times it is not easy to compute. Still it would appear that the kuthu of the Tamils was more in the nature of the troubadour’s art than anything else. But the troubadours themselves appear to have reached a greater excellence than what was attained by the Roman minstrels of the time, if we judge from the prominence given in the Sangam poems to the panar or wandering minstrel and even more from the large royal patronage commanded by these men.

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The history of India traces the identification of countries, villages, towns and other regions of India, as well as mythology, zoology, royal dynasties, rulers, tribes, local festivities and traditions and regional languages. Ancient India enjoyed religious freedom and encourages the path of Dharma, a concept common to Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism.

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