History · From State to Empire
UGC NET June 2023 History (Shift-II)
Passage
Internal trade was also brisk; caravans of merchants with carts and pack animals carried their merchandise from place to place and from fair to fair. Salt was an important commodity of trade, and salt-merchants moved with their families in carts provided with spare axles against contingencies. Barter played a large part in all transactions; honey and roots, for example, might be exchanged for fish-oil and toddy, and sugarcane and aval for venison and arrack, while in Musiri fish was sold for paddy. Agriculture was the mainstay of the national economy, and most of its operations were carried on by women of the lowest class (kadaisiyar) whose status appears to have differed little from that of the slave. The bulk of the land was owned by the vellalar, the agriculturists par excellence, who commanded a high social rank. The richer among them did not plough the land themselves, but employed labourers to do it. Besides owning land, they held official posts in the civil and military administration.
The author of the Periplus mentions which of the following places to which were sent all the pearls gathered on the coast and from which were exported muslins and other textile products?
APoduca (Arikamedu)
BColchi (Korkai)
CArgaru (Uraiyur) ✓ Correct
DTyndis (Tondi)
Correct answer: (C) Argaru (Uraiyur) — It was Argaru (Uraiyur), so the answer is Argaru.
Explanation
★It was Argaru (Uraiyur), so the answer is Argaru.
★The author of the Periplus mentions Argaru, identified with Uraiyur.
★To Argaru were sent all the pearls gathered on the coast.
★From Argaru were exported muslins and other textile products.
★Uraiyur was a major centre of the cotton and pearl trade.
★So the place mentioned by the author of the Periplus was Argaru, that is Uraiyur.
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