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 ...

In a way, the Chola empire was actually made by ... Its influence was not restricted primarily to the Tamil region; it also shaped the history of southern Karnataka and of coastal Andhra as ...

As much as kings, Tamil merchants are the unsung heroes of medieval India’s global footprint. Sometimes, cultural diasporas can achieve as much, if not more, than an armed force.

A dynasty that introduced the sengol — a sceptre symbolising power that was recently in the spotlight — established ...

A popular film director Pa.Ranjith, during a public event in Thanjavur, 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 ...

His background—transitioning from engineering to policy research to history ... the Tamil language, architecture, and religious practices far beyond the subcontinent. While Rajaraja Chola ...