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

Your last book spanned six centuries of ... I’ve completed work on a new history of the Chola Empire where I am trying to understand the dynasty at a deeper level than has been done in English ...

And, therefore, a polity like the Chola empire - that was ... excited and happy to be able to do in this book is actually trace how this impacted dynasty psychologically. What does it really ...

It is described as "the first book to situate the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in a social context. From the 9th through 13th centuries, the Chola dynasty produced ...

Bronze sculptures of him are prized possessions in many Western museum collections, and he can be found on the covers of dozens of books about ... when the Chola dynasty was taking its first ...

Kanisetti brings to life a dynasty that shaped not just medieval South India but also the global historical landscape. The Cholas, as Kanisetti discovered while writing his previous book Lords of ...

By the standards of the medieval world, Chola queens were also remarkably prominent, serving as the dynasty's public face. Travelling to Tamil villages and rebuilding small, old mud-brick shrines ...