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A Chola queen shaped Hinduism like no one else. Yet you haven’t heard of her
Sembiyan Mahadevi, a 10th-century Chola queen, reshaped Hinduism through temple patronage and art. Her vision turned Nataraja ...
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Temples, treasures and trade: The astonishing legacy of India's Chola dynasty
The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site It's 1000 CE - the heart of the Middle Ages. Europe is in flux. The powerful nations we ...
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How a wealthy merchant corporation powered the Chola empire and the precocious globalism of the medieval Indian Ocean
Like the Chola state, the Five Hundred had a formidable ability to incorporate diverse groups. Its members included Brahmins, wealthy peasants, goldsmiths and, by the early 11th century ...