What are you working on now? 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 language writing ...

fragrant tree product found its way to the region via trade routes—exchanged for textiles and goods from Indonesia—through the seafaring merchants of the Chola kingdom in the 11th century?

It is described as "the first book to situate the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in a social ... of the bronzes for the empire but also little-known facets of ...

the Chola dynasty gave the world many things and customs. Founded in the early 10th century, the empire imploded in the 13th century under kings with low ambition and high instance of tax ...

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 ...

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