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Give an account of the rise of the Chalukyas of Vatapi and their struggle with other rulers. Write a note on their patronage of arts.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

The Chalukyas of Vatapi (Badami) achieved something no earlier Deccan power had managed since the Satavahanas: the political unification of a vast swathe of the peninsula stretching from the Narmada to the Kaveri, sustained across nearly two centuries of near-continuous warfare on multiple fronts. Their rise from a modest hill-principality to an empire capable of…

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  • The Rise: From Local Chieftaincy to Imperial House
  • Pulakeshin II: The Zenith of Chalukyan Power
  • The Long Struggle Continues: Chalukya Recovery and the Final Reckoning with the Pallavas
  • Struggles Beyond the Pallavas: Kadambas, Gangas, and the Wider Deccan
  • Patronage of the Arts: Badami, Aihole, and Pattadakal
  • Badami: The Court Workshop in Cave and Rock
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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