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Discuss the circumstances which led to the conflict between the Pallavas and the Chalukyas and mention how this rivalry shaped the power dynamics in South India.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

Explaining the two-century conflict between the Pallavas of Kanchi and the Chalukyas of Badami requires looking past the sequence of battles to the underlying structural circumstances that made confrontation almost unavoidable once both dynasties had consolidated — and then tracing forward how the rivalry's eventual mutual exhaustion reorganized power across the entire South Indian peninsula,…

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  • The Krishna-Tungabhadra Doab: A Frontier Without a Buffer
  • Competing Claims over Vengi and the Eastern Chalukya Question
  • Dynastic Prestige and the Logic of Perpetual War
  • How the Rivalry Reshaped South Indian Power Dynamics
  • The Rashtrakuta Breakthrough
  • Room to Grow: The Pandyas and the Cholas
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion

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