I've been looking into south indian books and I've found a few, however, I was more interested in how royalty and the courts behaved and were carried out in South India, specifically in the dynastys like the Pallavas, Pandyas, Cheras, and Cholas! If anyone can recommend me any books or even sources in general for this, I'd be super thankful!
For the history of South India,we don't seem to find much historical details in the ancient era though we have ample data to construct the history of South India.Some of the books are:
1.Sastri, K. A. N. 1935, 1937. The Colas, 2 vols.Madras: University of Madras.
2.Sastri, K. A. N. 1935, 1937. The Colas, 2 vols.Madras: University of Madras.
3.Subbarayulu Y. 2012. South India Under the Cholas. Delhi: Oxford University Press
4.Champakalakshmi, R. 1996. Trade Ideology andUrbanization in South India 300 BC to AD 1300.Delhi: Oxford University Press
5.Hall, K. R. 1980. Trade and Statecraft in the Age ofthe Colas. New Delhi: Abhinav Publishers
6.Karashima, N. 1984. South Indian History andSociety. Delhi: Oxford University Press
7.Sangam Literature(Primary sources)
8.Singh Upinder.A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century.Pearson Book