The
Western Chalukya Empire ruled most of the
western Deccan,
South India, between the 10th and 12th centuries. This
Kannadiga dynasty is sometimes called the
Kalyani Chalukya after its regal capital at Kalyani, today's
Basavakalyan in
Karnataka and alternatively the
Later Chalukya from its theoretical relationship to the 6th-century
Chalukya dynasty of
Badami. The dynasty is called Western Chalukyas to differentiate from the contemporaneous
Eastern Chalukyas of
Vengi, a separate dynasty. Prior to the rise of these Chalukyas, the
Rashtrakuta empire of
Manyakheta controlled most of
Deccan and
Central India for over two centuries. In 973, seeing confusion in the Rashtrakuta empire after a successful invasion of their capital by the ruler of the
Paramara dynasty of
Malwa,
Tailapa II, a feudatory of the Rashtrakuta Dynasty ruling from
Bijapur region defeated his overlords and made Manyakheta his capital. The dynasty quickly rose to power and grew into an empire under
Someshvara I who moved the capital to Kalyani.