In 1024, Rajendra Chola dreamt up the grandest, riskiest, campaign ever planned by a medieval Indian ruler: an attack across the seas on Kedah (in today’s Malaysia). Both Rajendra Chola and the ...

The Cholas were a powerful south Indian dynasty known for military conquests, grand temples and shaping global trade and culture.

Rajendra – though sometimes with morally difficult consequences. Anirudh Kanisetti is a public historian. He is the author of ‘Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire’, and the ...

had said that Raja Raja Chola had taken over lands owned by Dalits and given it away to temples. He added that the king’s reign as a dark period for Dalits. Is it true? Explains, Prof.Bernard D ...

He was called Raja-Raja, King of Kings ... the Indian Ocean as the Mongols were to inner Eurasia. Rajaraja Chola's successor, Rajendra, built alliances with Tamil merchant corporations: a ...