The fourteen inscriptions discovered in 1893 at Ukkal village, now in Tiruvannamalai district, open the doors to a splendid universe of how village administration had been perfected in south India.
Vipravinodins were Brahmanas in the Vijayanagara Era whose profession was jugglery. This essay attempts to trace their chequered history using inscriptional evidence.
This is the fascinating and ennobling history of Sorade, a village near Shivamogga. Its modern name is Choradi. For the longest time, Sorade was an independent and self-governing village republic not under the control of any king. It took pride in describing itself as an Agrahara in which all people
An essay series covering various aspects of the building of the majestic Brihadeeshwara Temple, which was first conceived in the imagination of Raja Raja Chola.
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