Tamil Heritage Trust, Dimple's Art Gallery and Apparao Galleries proudly present
'A Chola Game of Thrones'
21st July, Friday 6:30 PM
At Dimple's gallery
2nd floor, Dilmas Square
27/10 Shafi Mohammed Road
Opp Apollo Children's Hospital
(Off Greams road)
Chennai 600006
A
talk by Dr Whitney Cox, Chair, Department of South Asian languages and
civilisations, University of Chicago, in which he explores a crucial
period in Chola' History surrounding the Ascension and reign of
Kulothunga Chola. The Chola Emperor Kulotthunga I ruled for a
half-century, from 1070 to around 1120; after the great empire builders
Rajaraja and Rajendra, he was perhaps the greatest of the kings of that
dynasty. His path to the throne, however, was complex. In 1070,
Kulotthunga was called Rajendra Chola, and he was one of the three men
who could claim to be the rightful king. By 1074 at the latest, he was
renamed Kulothunga ("Supreme in his Family") and ruling unopposed. How
he managed to go from one point to the other is a fascinating story,
which Dr Cox will try to relate in the course of this talk.
Dr
Whitney Cox' recent book ' Politics, Kingship and Poetry in Medieval
South India: Moonset on Sunrise mountain' ( Cambridge university press
2016) explores the working of a complex political society that the
Chola reign during this period presents.
All are welcome!