The Rashtrakutas displaced the Chalukyas to dominate the Deccan for two centuries, commissioning the Kailasa Temple at Ellora — one of the world's largest rock-cut monuments — and projecting power deep into northern India.
The Rashtrakuta Empire effectively ended in 973 CE when Western Chalukya feudatory Tailapa II seized the capital Manyakheta and overthrew Karka II; the last significant Rashtrakuta ruler Indra IV held out in exile until 982 CE, when he died by the Jain practice of sallekhana (voluntary fasting to death), extinguishing the dynasty.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Rashtrakuta Empire — the shape you scrub through changes in 753 · 850.
John Keay's acclaimed single-volume history of India places this dynasty within the sweep of the subcontinent's past.
Sastri narrates the Rashtrakutas' two-century Deccan supremacy, their Ellora patronage, and their northern campaigns within the South Indian frame.