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is written in old Kannada script. DON’T MISS OUT ‘Nrupatunga Road’ in central Bengaluru, home to several government buildings and institutions, is ... |
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and poet Kalhaṇa composed the epic poem Rājatarangiṇī in Sanskrit in the 12th century. In it, he narrated the history of Kashmir’s ruling dynasties... |
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make a historian more reliable? LET’S EXPLORE Æ According to tradition, Ādi Śhankarāchārya, the 8th-century scholar and teacher of the advaita vedā... |
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the Deccan Plateau in a few other chapters. s o Together with the southernmost tip of the subcontinent, it was g a i equally alive during this time... |
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home to over o a hundred Hindu, Buddhist and Jain temples. One of them, a S i 7th-century Jain temple atop Meguti Hill, displays on its east o p wa... |
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t p e E Deccan. They are known as the Eastern Chālukyas and ruled a – T 3 from Vengi in present-day Andhra Pradesh (see Fig. 4.10 in the next chapt... |
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truth, and highly esteem learning.” I y The Pallavas created many temples and other structures i Monolithic: o Made of (Fig. 3.1). At Māmallapuram,... |
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(see ‘The Age of Reorganisation’, in particular Fig. 6.14). Then they seemed to disappear, eclipsed 2 by other powers. Now they reemerge (Fig. 3.16... |
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techniques ensured a steady agricultural output and contributed to the prosperity of the empire’s heartland. Fig. 3.20. An early Chola bronze s r A... |
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the P e rise of assemblies at several levels. Let a G us recall, for example, the elaborate | 10th-century inscriptions of the Cholas n e at Uttara... |
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India’s o east coast connected with Sri t g a K Lanka, Southeast Asia and all the e d Fig. 3.22. A 7th-century hero stone at t a way to Chinese por... |
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Beginnings: Cities and States’ in Part 1 of this d textbook)multiplied,withmanynewonesbasedonoccupationor : t region. This created communities in w... |
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were t : initially a professional group open to different varṇas. In the s o 10th century, they became a distinct jāti. In parts of Bengal, t g a K... |
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i n occasional rivalries, as between Shaivites and Jainas in y south India. i o g Around the 6th century, Tantric schools of thought emerged, i emp... |
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K e n poets produced devotional literature (in Tamil) which had an f s o r enormous impact: the 12 Ālvārs, devotees of Viṣhṇu (one of t p them, Āṇḍ... |
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(which you learned about in n your Grade 7 Mathematics textbook). Mahāvīra, a Jain scholar o p (not to be confused with Mahāvīra, the great Jain te... |
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Reprint 2026-27 The Hūṇ as’ challenge We need to go back a little in time. The Huns were a nomadic people originating from Central Asia in the 4t... |
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the death of Islam’s founder, Muhammad, in 632 CE, the new religion had spread far into Asia and Africa. Idol: A worshipped In 637, India’s western... |
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her treasure to be 6 s distributed among the brave soldiers and inspired them to m d stand against the invaders. s i P K Æ What does this suggest a... |
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centuries of unremitting effort, the a Arab dominion in India was limited to just two petty states in P e Sindh and Punjab. Even there, they surviv... |
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with the Indian numerals. Their mathematicians 6 acknowledged the Indian origin of this revolutionary numeral s o system, but once transmitted to E... |
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void, it witnessed the dynamic integration of new social and political groups, the flourishing of literature in Sanskrit and regional languages, an... |
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9th and 10th centuries, several kingdoms confronted p – T 4 each other in present-day Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. Across those two regions a... |
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despite the support Ānandapāla received from several rulers from north India. The outcome of that battle, waged in northern Punjab, meant that Mahm... |
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N AZ N AV ID A 0 0 S M N 3 Ā Dhillikā G N om us AS Y Gan ti In am ga A Ajayameru una Gha Ga M A R Ū P bl gara nda s K Ā Brhm aputa hm Mahotsavanaga... |
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