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Evaluate the importance of tripartite struggle for the domination over north India during the eighth and ninth centuries
- UPSC 2022
- Early Medieval India, 750-1200
The contest among the Gurjara-Pratiharas, the Palas, and the Rashtrakutas for mastery of north India — remembered as the tripartite struggle — was fought overwhelmingly over one prize: control of Kanauj, which since Harsha's time had stood as the symbolic seat of paramountcy over the Gangetic heartland and Madhyadesha. Evaluating its importance requires looking past…
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- Why Kanauj Mattered
- Phases of the Struggle Across Two Centuries
- Political and Military Consequences
- Economic and Urban Consequences
- Cultural and Social Consequences
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