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Critically evaluate the achievements of the Cholas.

  • UPSC 1998
  • Early Medieval India, 750-1200

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Every domain in which the Chola dynasty (c. 850–1279 CE) is conventionally praised — conquest, naval power, local government, temple building, literature and trade — carried a corresponding cost that fell on peasants, women or subordinate polities, and a genuinely critical evaluation has to hold the achievement and its price in view at the same…

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  • Territorial and Military Conquests
  • Naval Power and Overseas Reach
  • Administration and Local Self-Government
  • Temple Architecture and Art
  • Literature and Learning
  • Trade, Economy and Urbanization
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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