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Assess the importance of the Cholas in the history of South India.
- UPSC 1996
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
The importance of the Chola dynasty (c. 850–1279 CE) to South Indian history lies less in the sheer size of the territory it once ruled than in the durable templates it left behind in four separate domains — local governance, temple architecture, Tamil literature, and trade-based urbanization — each of which continued to shape the…
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- Administrative Institutions: A Template for Local Self-Government
- Dravida Temple Architecture at Its Zenith
- Tamil Literary Patronage
- Trade and Urbanization via Nadu and Nagaram
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