Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India ... period shrines and markets. These developments in urbanism and architecture were paralleled in art and literature.

But why are gopurams not a thing in North India? Why do so few medieval temples survive in the North? To some, the answer is ...

So medieval Tamil temples really are some of the most extraordinary relics of a period of profound ... is happening in North Indian Hinduism, for example. In that, in North India, if you think ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing ... art and literature. Medieval Tamil metalwork, produced for Chola-period temples, is perhaps the ...

Yet that year, on the other side of the globe, an emperor from southern India was preparing to build the world's most colossal temple. Completed just 10 years ... of the most astonishing dynasties of ...