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