The Chola dynasty established a system of village autonomy with elected village assemblies and committees to manage local affairs. Inscriptions from Uttaramerur provide details of how these village councils were formed and functioned during the Chola period. Each village assembly governed autonomously according to local customs and addressed problems faced by its members. The Cholas are renowned for their grand temple architecture, sculptures, and literature of the period.
The Chola dynasty established a system of village autonomy with elected village assemblies and committees to manage local affairs. Inscriptions from Uttaramerur provide details of how these village councils were formed and functioned during the Chola period. Each village assembly governed autonomously according to local customs and addressed problems faced by its members. The Cholas are renowned for their grand temple architecture, sculptures, and literature of the period.
The Chola dynasty established a system of village autonomy with elected village assemblies and committees to manage local affairs. Inscriptions from Uttaramerur provide details of how these village councils were formed and functioned during the Chola period. Each village assembly governed autonomously according to local customs and addressed problems faced by its members. The Cholas are renowned for their grand temple architecture, sculptures, and literature of the period.
The Chola dynasty established a system of village autonomy with elected village assemblies and committees to manage local affairs. Inscriptions from Uttaramerur provide details of how these village councils were formed and functioned during the Chola period. Each village assembly governed autonomously according to local customs and addressed problems faced by its members. The Cholas are renowned for their grand temple architecture, sculptures, and literature of the period.
assemblies Sbha Uss ond Magoram) and thery CorOroittees. Variuams) deve loped -through the aqes O0d Neached Its culminotion duing Ahe cho la ule Too nscriptions belonging to the pevfod oP PalantaKa I found at uttoramerUY piOVIde detoils the fomat ion and funct fons of viloqe Councils This incciption dated oOund qao AD. in the egin o Povataka chola fqUa 955 AD) is an ou st snding oCumente in the histony of nlia Uttovame VUY is situoted fn Kachee puxanm - "the pallava king Mandilaman 1l established it aYound 15b AD. Ihe pallavaS the cholas, Ahe pandyas he SambuOYaYaYS the i jayoagaio Rays and the Naunks SuccesiMely \uled it 7Rajencdra chola as well as krishmdeva Raya Visited Uttayameyuy M the Conons Of the UEtoyame yuY butft
agama texts has the Vilage assernbly
aye mandapa at the centxe All the temples OYented Lofth e fevence to the mandapa
Duing chota pexiod thexe wos democNGtie
government a the villaqe teuel as the
ttayamev ux inseríptions ave an ideo how
avfl lage assembly ot uttanameruY Consisted of etected members There weye Commfttees foY the maintenonce D iaation taes 1 30ads» to povide Yelice duning dvough, to test qpld @nd SD forth Each assembly Punctfoned autonomously in actoYdance with fts buon constitutron base d on custom and usaqe , and took Caye oP the PYOblems OP iEs membeS at the local leuel_ PoRo jora(ae85 IO14) Rounda the Chola empfve, he destoyyed the Chexo avy jN the mal a bor and the Ottacked Kollam He e cC conqured madurai by defeotíng a n d
Captuing lhe pandyo king he conqutred
noYthevn Sri lanka s enabled him to ConErol the Oleysea s
trade with South east
Asia H e built the brihadesh iara shiva temple thaniavUY in loio at
hafendiaI (toy -1ouu)
Succeeded his tather Raiavaja 1 He conqu- - eved the e st Df sYí loNKa'
RafeNdra builE a neuw Capital called
Gamat -
Ken da chola puyam -tb Comme mOYate this
tcto he Purther cleveloped the chola i t fo navy and used Conquests Senb evpeditions In 1085 He aga'nst 4h s T j a y a tem ple Many of the cnvivim eKam ples bf the indu Culttna) inluuence found ny thmouohout the South s Asia uwe murh tt the legacy Of the Cholas D n of the lavgest empfies in odan histoy, that sbecthed til south fast Asia, the Cholas Used their immense wealth in bulding moon iO.ent temples and StYuctuies
T oould be an undey stotement to all
the ochitectuYe of the chola perivd Os grand, the t Loas 1ike. arandiose and tOueiing The Shee size DP theiy termples the towesig Uimanas the tulpled walls just everly
aspatt theiy monuments clispayed qrandleua
to beat the Brhade. And of couYse nothi Suwara temple at Thanjavut, that fs a
berch mon by itsel e in ovchtectual
Cr cet tence The cholas builE big,thei Strucues toeve neont to toue t o (nsplye awe to
take aoay the breath t Luos not Just just
Ane qiand buildings ,it oas olso the cculptu |Ahe and ay that adomed them ohich Cuas equality breth taKing. he temples were Bf the drayida stuple The the othe mag niercient Structres built by the Cholat were the temple at Gongikoda-
CholapuTam ohítn is next only t t the
bviha d eesUoa temple at TaniOYe ín Size
Yandeuy and aYchitectura] excellence
The chola period also twtnessed a qlovious
phase În binte asttng and making of
idols literoture , chob literatuYeLOritten in Tamil tveated in south indfa betuueen in the qth and the 13th centuries ce