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“The Chola rulers were not only mighty conquerors, efficient administrators but also builders of fine temples.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2021
  • Cultural Traditions in India, 750-1200

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The Chola polity of the ninth to thirteenth centuries fused three registers of power that are usually studied separately — military expansion, administrative consolidation, and temple patronage — into a single, mutually reinforcing project of statecraft. Nilakanta Sastri, whose dynastic history remains the foundational account of the Cholas, treated these as sequential achievements of successive…

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