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In what ways would the period of the Pallavas of the Kanchi and that of the Chalukyas of Badami mark the beginning of a new historical phase in peninsular India

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  • Regional States during Gupta Era

The sixth to eighth centuries in the peninsula are not simply "more of the same" after the Sangam-age chiefdoms and the post-Satavahana Deccan — they mark a genuine break in the scale, institutional depth and cultural character of peninsular polities. What makes the Pallava-Chalukya age a new historical phase is not that kingdoms existed before…

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  • From Chiefly Sangam Polities and the Kalabhra Interregnum to Imperial-Scale States
  • Monumental Temple-Building as a New State Activity
  • Sanskritization and the Brahmanical Land-Grant Economy Penetrating the Peninsula
  • The Beginnings of Institutionalised Popular Religion: The Bhakti Movement

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