Chola queens were also remarkably prominent, serving as the dynasty's public face. Travelling to Tamil villages and rebuilding small, old mud-brick shrines in gleaming stone, the Chola dowager ...

Representing the pinnacle of bronze casting in India, these sculptures became widely prevalent from the 9th through 13th century under the imperial rule of the Chola dynasty in the Tamil-speaking ...

It's really a historical process of incredible vastness and grandeur that is unleashed by Chola expansion that in a lot of ways outlives the dynasty itself ... and stone of course is a much ...

The Brihadishvara temple, built in the 11th Century by King Rajaraja Chola, is a Unesco World Heritage site [Getty Images] ...