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True Valor
He put an army on ships and sent it across open ocean to another continent. Nobody in Indian history had done that before, and nobody did it again.
He put an army on ships and sent it across open ocean to another continent.
Nobody in Indian history had done that before, and nobody did it again.
Rajendra Chola I came to the throne in 1014.
His father, Rajaraja I, had already built the Cholas into the dominant power of southern India.
A fleet and the yards to build it. A civil service with real depth. And a habit of temple-building that belonged to a state sure enough of itself to think in centuries rather than in reigns.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.