History of South India

It is said that the sage Agastya crossed the Vindhyas in the later Vedic age to aryanise the south. . The Cholas, Pandyas and Cheras or Ker...

LITERATURE Literary works in Sanskrit continued to be written. Some of these works had their counterparts ih Tamil, where the models of lit...

SOCIETY According to Romila Thapar, the centre of social and economic life at the time, particularly in the rural areas, was the temple. De...

ECONOMY During the early part of this period the village was economically self-suffici~nt and the tendency to hoard wealth was not a charact...

LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT The autonomous villa~ councilor local self-government was the most importaJ characteristic of Chola administration. T...

CHOLA ADMINISTRATION The dominant form of government under the Cholas was hereditary monarchy. The coronation was an important and impressiv...

THE IMPERIAL CHOLAS The emergence of Chola power from obscurity, its rise to an imperial position and its conflicts, first with the Rashtrak...