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Cheras
(700-850) (S.India)
Caves: Kaviyur, Talakat and Vilinjam.
Eastern Ganga
(750-1250)
Temples and remains: Bhuvaneshwar,
Jaipur, Konarak and Mukhalingam.
Rashtrakutas
(middle 8th C-late- 10th C A.D.)
(Deccan) C: Malkhed Main sites: Ellora
Pala
(765-1175) (N.India) Main sites: Bodhgaya, Nalanda, Paharpur,
Uddandapur
and
Vikramas-
ila.
Bhauma-Karas
(Orissa)
(middle 8th-10thc. A.D.)
Main sites.: Bhubaneshwar, Lalitagiri
and Ratnagiri.
Nolamba
(800-1150)
(Deccan) C: Hemavati Temples and remains: Hemavati and
Henjeru.
Pratiharas
(805-1036)
(N.India)
Temples and remains : Abaneri, Bikaner,
Bundelkhand,
Jagat,
Kanauj,
Kotah, Osian, Sikar.
Kalachuris
(N. India)
(middle 9th-late-12thc.A.D)
Main sites: Amarkantak, Bheraghat,
Sohagpur.
Cholas (846-1173)
(S. India) C: Thanjavur
Temples and remains: Chidambaram,
Darasuram,
Gangaikondacholapuram,
Nartamalai, Srinivasanallur, Tanjore
and Tiruvarur.
Utpala
(855-939)
Temples and remains: Awantipur.
Chedi or Haihaya
(895-1150)
Chalukya
(941-1197)
(N.India)
Main sites: Bheraghat, Bundelkhand,
Chandrehi, Gurgi, and Sohagpur.
Temples and remains : Abu, Dabhoi,
Gumli, Modhera, Sidhpur, Somnath,
and Vadnagar.
Paramara
(949-1088)
(N.India)C: Dhar
Temples and remains:
Dhar and
Udaipur.
Chandella
(950-1203)
(N.India)
Temples:
Khajuraho, Garhwal and
Mahoba
Late Western Chalukya
(973-1200) (Deccan)C: Kalyan
Main Sites : Chandadampur, Ittagi,
Kalyan, and Lakkundi. Temples and
remains:
Gadag, Haveri, Kukkanur
and Kuruvatti.
Gahadavala
(1080-118) Temples and remains: Bikaner and
Delhi.
Somavamsis
(middle lOth-late 11th
c.
A.D).
Main site: Bhubaneshwar.
Sena
(1095-1206)
Remains:
Lakshmanavati and Mahanad.
Hoysala
(1100-1300)
(Deccan) C: Belur
Main site : Belur and Halebid.
Temples, torans and remains: Arsik-
ere, Belur, Dodda Gaddavalli, Halebid,
Somnathpur.
Imperial Gangas
(Orissa)
(early 12th-middlel5thc.
A.D.)
Main site: Bhubaneshwar
Kakatiya
(1110-1326)
(Deccan) C: Hanamkonda
Temples, Torans and Warangal.
Remains:Hanamkonda,Palampet, Pil-
lalmarri, Tripurantakam
Yadava
(1187-1312)
Main sites : Bal Sane, Jhogda
(Deccan) C: Devagiri
and Sinnar.
Pandya
(1190-1310)
Temples: Chidambaram, Madurai,
(S. India) C: Madurai
Srirangam and Tiruvannamalai
Sultanate
(13th - 15th c.
A.D)
(N. India)C: Delhi
Kutub Minar; tomb of Sultan Ghori at
Delhi; Arahai din ka Jhompra at Ajmer.
Alai Darwaza. Tomb of Ghiyas-ud-
din Tughlak; Kotla Firuz Shah; tomb of
Firuz Shah Tughlak.
Vijayanagar
(1335-1600)
(S. India) C: Vijayanagar
Temples and remains: Gingi, Hampi,
Lepakshi, Madurai, Srirangam, Tad-
patri,
Tiruvannamalai,
Vellore,
Virinchipuram.
Sayyid
(1414-1444)
Tomb of Mubarak Shah Sayyid.
Lodi
(1451-1526)
Gujarat Sultanate
(1459-1550)
Bijapur
(1490-1686)
Sur
(1538-1555)
Mughal Dynasty
(1526-1707)
Shish Gumbaz; Moti Ki Masjid.
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Sidi Sayyid mosque at Ahmedabad.
Ibrahim Rauza; Gol Gumbaz; Jami
Masjid.
Tomb of Sher Shah at Sasaram.
Tomb of Chisti; Buland Darwaza;
Panch Mahal and other remains at
Fatehphur Sikhri; tomb of Akbar at
Sikandra; the Taj Mahal at Agra; the
Red Fort and the tomb of Humayun at
Delhi, Bibi ka Maqbara at Auran-
gabad.




