Cholas At War | Kamini Dandapani and Anirudh Kanisetti in conversation with William Dalrymple

Cholas At War | Kamini Dandapani and Anirudh Kanisetti in conversation with William Dalrymple | Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 Series Jaipur Literature Festival 2024

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The Chola empire reigned over the southern reaches of the peninsula, covering the Krishna-Godavari delta in northern Andhra Pradesh and extending their influence towards South East Asia at the height of its power. They unified peninsular India south of the Tungabhadra River and maintained this territorial unity for three centuries, from 907 to 1215. An expert panel comes together to evaluate the key figures who played a crucial role in establishing Chola supremacy and the cultural, political, economic, and social paradigms that facilitated this expansion.

Kamini Dandapani was born and raised in the once sleepy city that was once Madras and now lives in the city that never sleeps, New York. She has had extensive training in Carnatic vocal music, Western Classical piano, and Bharatanatyam. She endured a long stint in the corporate world, which included Chase Manhattan and McKinsey & Company, after which she returned to her true loves, music and writing. Her first book is Rajaraja Chola-King of Kings.

Anirudh Kanisetti is the award-winning author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He received the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar in 2023 and the Tata Literature Best Nonfiction Book of the Year award in 2022. He writes the weekly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint. Kanisetti was featured in THE WEEK’s 40 Under 40 list for India’s most promising creatives, as well as Open magazine’s Open Minds 2022 Soft Power list. His research has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts. His writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, LiveMint, and other prestigious publications. Kanisetti was formerly Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography and Associate Fellow at the Takshashila Institution. He hosts three popular and critically acclaimed podcasts – Echoes of India, Yuddha and The Altar of Time.

William Dalrymple is the author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, Duff Cooper Prize-winning The Last Mughal, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. His book, The Anarchy, was shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington medal, the Tata Book of the Year, and the Historical Writers Association Award, and won the 2020 Arthur Ross Medal from the US Council on Foreign Relations. Dalrymple has held visiting lectureships at Princeton, Brown, and Oxford, where he is currently a Visiting Fellow at All Souls. He was presented with the President’s Medal by the British Academy and was named one of the world’s top 50 thinkers for 2020 by Prospect Magazine. He is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

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