The Tripartite struggle took place in the ' ninth century', it was for the control of the northern belt or the northern part of India
According to the dictionary it means "a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water."
Basically it's when there is very little rain or water and the amount of water in a place decreases.
As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational “terrorists” who have no point of view worth listening to. Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during the creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes — on both sides — inevitably follow from this original injustice.
B. It grew smaller as power was given back to the states