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Later Hindu South Indian
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:35 am
by RSDPIT
This may just be me having a senior moment, but are the Sinhalese militia unusable by the Chola Empire? my confusion arises from the fact that Sinhalese were actually situated in what is now Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka was also part of The Chola Empire so you would have thought the Chola's would have had access to them?
Re: Later Hindu South Indian
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2017 1:37 pm
by grahambriggs
RSDPIT wrote:This may just be me having a senior moment, but are the Sinhalese militia unusable by the Chola Empire? my confusion arises from the fact that Sinhalese were actually situated in what is now Sri Lanka, but Sri Lanka was also part of The Chola Empire so you would have thought the Chola's would have had access to them?
Correct. I suspect the thinking is that the Sinhalese militia improved to average quality in the Chola Empire period and some were part of the standing army - i.e. the troops in the "Archers" line.