Tamils Land-based Thinai Theory and Economic Transformation

Abstract

Literary theory is a tool for the systematic study of the nature of literature and the ethics of analyzing literature. The Tolkappiam theory of Thinai has been identified by scholars and presented as a worldwide literary theory. It is worth considering here how our forefathers thought and constructed the natural environment, the emotions of the human mind, and time. Although the environment and topography mentioned by Tolkappiyar have changed, the basic feelings of man are always applicable everywhere. One of the theories of Tolkappiam, the Theory of the Thinai, is an excellent approach to study. As far as Tolkappiyam is concerned, the formation of the thinai theory is a tool to bring the subjective life records of group society into the order of grammatical rules. The term "thinai" can be taken to refer to the characteristic interests based on the land. Subject matters can be considered as determining factors in the character of the land. The Thinai distinctions and delimitations show that the Sangam society has become a society that has begun to live forever in one place. There is no doubt that the Sangam age was the period when the ethnic society in which the system of collective life prevailed was followed by feudalism. Thinai's life is based on the respective geographies. The lives of four lands, such as Kurinji, also existed at the same time. They have attained levels of development appropriate to their respective economic bases. The purpose of this article is to study this based on the theory of the Four Thinai lands.