The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c35.s3.54

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The last Chola king of any importance was Kulottuṅga Chola III, who reigned for about forty years from A. D. 1287. The succession was then disputed, and the Chola princes sank into a position of insignificance. For a time the Pāṇḍyas in the south reasserted themselves and gained the upper hand, until 1310, when the power of all the Hindu states in Southern India was broken by the successes of Malik Kāfūr's Muhammadan army in that year and following years. The rapid development of the Vijayanagar kingdom during the fourteenth century again restored Hindu authority in the Peninsula. The extreme South passed under the rule of Vijayanagar about A. D. 1370.¹