How did the cholas rise to power ?
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In the Sangam age the Chola had played an important role in South Indian history. But for the next five centuries they were eclipsed by the rise of Pallavas, Chalukyas and the Rashtrakutas. Again in the middle of the ninth century a.d. they revived their power. For the next 200 they wore the master of the whole region lying south of the river Tungabhadra and also over some island in the Indian Ocean.
Like the Pandyas and Keralas, the Cholas were native people. After the Sangam age became the feudatories of the Pallavas and the Rashtrakutas. Then the heart that great Revival in the 19th Century a.d. through Vijayalaya, a powerful feudatory chief of the Pallavas. His successor Aditya I was an in dishes but skilled military general and killing his once master Aparajita Pallava established Chola suzerainty over the whole of Tondaimandalam on the ruins of the Pallava Kingdom. his son and successor Prantaka I had defeated the Pandyas, Banas, and Vaidumas and annexed the Madura kingdom. The next King Sundara Chola, however, recovered Tondaimandalam from the Tashtrakutas.
Raja Raja II ascended The Throne in 85 and ruled for long 30 years and during this period the Chola imperialism began. His son Rajendra I what's the word the son of a worthy father. He raised the Chola Empire to the position of most powerful in extensive Hindu state of his time.