Sembiyan Mahadevi, a 10th-century Chola queen, reshaped Hinduism through temple patronage and art. Her vision turned Nataraja ...

A History of the Chola Empire’, the historian Anirudh Kanisetti documents the rise and fall of the Chola royal women, be it ...

But what set the Cholas apart was their endless capacity for innovation. By the standards of the medieval world, Chola queens ...

As much as kings, Tamil merchants are the unsung heroes of medieval India’s global footprint. Sometimes, cultural diasporas ...

Kanisetti discusses with Ashwitha the role of Sembiyan Mahadevi in building Chola Empire, whether it really had a Navy ...