Starting from their core in the Kaveri delta, their empire at its peak covered a large chunk of peninsular India, both its ...

The man Kanisetti is referring to is the Chola emperor, Parantaka, “the foe-destroyer”, a third-generation ruler who “killed his half-brother, took the Chola throne and set about marrying women left ...

Public historian Anirudh Kanisetti’s new book, Lords of Earth and Sea: A History of the Chola Empire, seeks to bring balance to the country’s civilisational understanding. “You cannot really ...