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Chola Empire's Lost Fleet: The 1025 Raid on Srivijaya
In 1025, Rajendra Chola I launched one of the most audacious naval campaigns of the medieval world—a swift, devastating raid across the Bay of Bengal against the Srivijaya Empire, based on the island of Sumatra. This episode reconstructs the logistics, strategy, and human drama of that expedition: how Chola shipwrights built ocean-going vessels capable of ferrying horses and siege equipment, how Tamil merchant guilds like the Ayyavole provided intelligence and supplies, and why Rajendra chose to strike the strategic chokehold of the Malacca Strait. We follow the fleet's route from…
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