Chola Maritime Hegemony (1090s)

Name: Chola Maritime Hegemony (1090s)
Start: 1091
End: 1100

Type Event Region South India Time 1091–1100

In the late 11th century, the Chola dynasty maintained a powerful ocean-going fleet and port network in South India, with Gangaikonda Cholapuram as i…

Timeline

1091–1095Nagapattinam · Coromandel CoastThe Chola maintained dockyards, warehouses, and tariff systems at major Coromandel ports, supplying ocean-going merchant ships and warships, and consolidating control over Bay of Bengal shipping lanes.
1096–1100Bay of Bengal · Bay of BengalChola fleets patrolled the Bay of Bengal and Andaman waters, deterring pirates and protecting their own trade routes, continuing the tradition of ocean-going force projection dating from the time of Rajendra.

Sources

The Cholas — Nilakanta Sastri, K.A. (1955)
Trade and Statecraft in the Age of the Cholas — Abraham, Meera (1988)