When the thin line between history and fiction blurs and the past gets raked up, quite often, it stokes a row. This time, it revolves around the religious identity of Raja Raja Chola, the iconic king who wielded power and reigned supreme across South India.
Rewind to 985 CE -1014 CE. Raja Raja Chola fights wars with an expansionist mindset and captures vast expanses of the Pandya and the Chera country. He invades northern parts of Sri Lanka, Lakshadweep, Thiladhunmadulu atoll, and some tracts of Maldives.
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