The man Kanisetti is referring to is the Chola emperor, Parantaka, “the foe-destroyer”, a third-generation ruler who “killed ...

From words like cash (from the Tamil kasu) and Coromandel Coast (from Chola Mandalam or Chola circle) to Tamil temple architecture and economic systems that made Indian textiles world-famous ...

Many of the state's towns grew around Chola-period shrines and markets. These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature. Medieval Tamil metalwork, produced ...

As a historian, an analysis of how literature, music, temples, and religion coalesced to build Chola power—comparing it with his earlier research on the Chalukyas—would have been much more ...