Book Review: ‘Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings’ by Kamini Dandapani
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Book Review: ‘Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings’ by Kamini Dandapani

The Hindu  

A comprehensive overview of the Chola dynasty written in a colourful and easy style. Rajaraja Chola: King of Kings By Kamini Dandapani Aleph Book Company, 2022 Pages: 392 Price: Rs.999 But how is this accessibility to be achieved without becoming simplistic or camouflaged propaganda? Kamini Dandapani’s book Rajaraja Chola:King of Kings provokes many such questions. The much-lauded 10th century ruler Arulmozhi Varman, later known as Rajaraja Chola, is the central figure of Dandapani’s book. Dandapani’s book is mostly factual with a few inferences that, like a good historian, she declares as inferences.” Written in the 1950s, Ponniyin Selvan catapulted the Cholas into popular consciousness.

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