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Give an account of the struggle for supremacy in South India between the Chalukyas of Badami and the Pallavas.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Regional States during Gupta Era

The struggle between the Chalukyas of Badami and the Pallavas of Kanchi was not one campaign but a chain of reversals, in which each generation's ruler tried to undo the humiliation his predecessor had suffered. Read as a sequence of specific engagements rather than a general rivalry, the conflict shows a strikingly symmetrical pattern of…

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