⚔ Conquest / annexation
Chola invasion of Sri Lanka
c. 993 CE – present · 📍 Anuradhapura
What it led to: Anuradhapura was sacked and the Sinhalese capital abandoned.
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♻ Fought over again and again
Other battles within 40 km of this place.
c. 161 BCEDutugemunu unites Sri Lanka
1017Chola conquest of Sri Lanka completed
→ Northern Sri Lanka became the Chola province of Mummudi-chola-mandalam.
Meanwhile (within 10 years)
- 985 CE Rajaraja I becomes Chola king · Chola Empire
- 1000 ⚔ Mahmud of Ghazni begins his raids on India · Ghaznavid Empire
- 1001 ⚔ Mahmud defeats Jayapala at Peshawar · Ghaznavid Empire
Alive at the time
Al-Biruni
c. 973 CE – c. 1050
Author of the Kitab al-Hind, a study of India
Atisha Dipankara982 CE – 1054
Vikramashila scholar who revived Buddhism in Tibet
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🗂 Era 1
- Medieval IndiaPart of this era
⏳ Periods 1
- Chola & Major Southern KingdomsBelongs to this period
🏛 Kingdoms & empires 2
- Pallava Dynasty 275 CE – 897 CEExisted at the same time (49 years)
- Rashtrakuta Empire 753 CE – 982 CEExisted at the same time (134 years)
👑 Rulers 6
- Vijayalaya 848 CE – 871 CERuled it
- Aditya I 871 CE – 907 CERuled it
- Parantaka I 907 CE – 955 CERuled it
- Rajaraja I 985 CE – 1014Ruled it
- Rajendra I 1012 – 1044Ruled it
- Kulothunga I 1070 – 1122Ruled it
⚔ Events 6
- Brihadisvara Temple completed 1010Happened in it
- Chola naval expedition to Srivijaya 1025Happened in it
- Rajaraja I becomes Chola king 985 CEHappened in it
- Chola invasion of Sri Lanka c. 993 CEHappened in it
- Rajendra I becomes Chola king 1014Happened in it
- Chola conquest of Sri Lanka completed 1017Happened in it
📍 Places & sites 1
- Brihadisvara Temple 1010A place of this polity
🔧 Technology 1
- Stepwells: Rani-ki-Vav 11th centuryMade or discovered in this time
📄 Research 3
- Political Processes and Structure of Polity in Early Medieval India: Problems o… B. D. Chattopadhyaya · 1985Research on this topic
- The Cosmopolitan Vernacular Sheldon Pollock · 1998Research on this topic
- The Formation of Chinese Maritime Networks to Southern Asia, 1200–1450 Tansen Sen · 2006Research on this topic
📚 Books 2
- A History of South India K. A. Nilakanta SastriRecommended reading
- The Colas K. A. Nilakanta SastriRecommended reading