So was there a Chola naval base on the Nicobar Islands, or not?

TL;DR: No. There is no credible evidence of this, and yet the internet keeps confidently claiming there was. Wikipedia says there was. Repeatedly. Let’s chase every citation down and see what is going on here. (Source Map of the Chola Empire at around its peak. Note the blue dot on the Nicobar Islands. I don’t […]