Rajendra Chola attacked Malay Peninsula

In the early Christian Era the Malay Peninsula was known as Golden Chersonese. To ancient Indians it was called Suvarnadvipa or Land of Gold.

According to the Malay Annals, the Khmer price Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara in the 700s. Between the 7th and the 13th century, much of Peninsula was under the Srivijaya empire, which was centered in Palembang on the island of Sumatra.

During the 10th to the 13yth centuries AD the Chola Kingdom of South India, a great naval power protected her Indian merchantmen from the Coromandel Coast in the Strait of Malacca.

In 1025 and 1026 Gangga Negara was attacked by Rajendra Chola I. Before that the Rajendra sent a naval force to attack Kedaram in 1017-18. In the campaign that lasted many years, Rajendra Chola ransacked the city and carried its treasure home to South India.

The 1025 naval raid in Malay Peninsula was display of the power of the Chola king , Rajendra Chola I, who possessed and wielded strong political and military power in India.

This was the result of the rivalry that had developed between the Cholas and Srivijaya; however, the Cholas had exercised no political control over the Malay Peninsula.

Most of the historians concluded that the raid was undertaken to protect the commercial interest of Tamilakam which were perhaps threatened by the attempts of the Sailendra kings of Srivijaya to monopolies the trade to the east because of their control over the ports of the Malay Peninsula.
Rajendra Chola attacked Malay Peninsula