Ancient site that has become a political flashpoint in India

Archaeological discoveries have been discovered in the South Tamil Nadu village in the southern Tamil Nadu state.

During the coconut grooves, ancient artifacts buried in the soil layers in a series of 15 feet (4.5 meters) deep trench appear – the trace of the structure of the terracotta pot and the structure of long -haired bricks.

Experts in the Tamil Nadu State Archeology Department estimates that artwork is 5 to 5,500 years old, the oldest of which is old. He says that these conclusions challenge the existing descriptions of the initial civilization of the Indian subcontinent and their size changes.

Politicians, historians and epigraphist have gone beyond archeology, the state has become a symbol of pride and acquaintance between rival historical stories.

Yet enthusiastic people in history say that this is one of the most attractive and accessible discoveries in modern India – a rare opportunity to deepen your understanding of the shared past.

3 km from Madurai on the banks of the Vagai river. (Miles Miles) Village, Clead, was one of the 3 sites for excavation according to Archaeological Survey (ASI) Archaeological Survey (ASI) Archaeological Survey (ASI) archeological survey.

Near the ancient Madurai and in 1975, the school teacher selected a 100-acre site due to the previous discovery of red-long ceramics.

From Since, 3 excavations at Kiladi have exposed more than 5,000 articles – burial, coins, beads, terracotta pipes and more – only four of the 3 marked acres. Many are now displayed in the nearest museum.

Ajay Kumar, who leads the state archaeological team in Cleadi, says that there is a wide range of bricks and water system of water-5,500 years old.

“It was a literate, urban society where people had a separate place for population, burial methods and industrial work,” says Shri Kumar, “It is the first largest, well -known ancient urban settlement in South India.

With the discovery of the civilization of the Indus Valley in the early 900s, most efforts to find the origin of civilization in the subcontinent have focused on north and central India.

So, the search for Kiladi encouraged Tamil Nadu and beyond.

William Daniel, a teacher in the neighboring Kerala, said that he was proud of his inheritance because of his inheritance.

He says, “It will be proud of the southern (India) people, that our civilization is the same as the north (India),” he says.

The politics around the Keladi reflects a deep torrential northern partition-underlines how much it is necessary to cope with the past.

India’s first major civilization – Indus Kholeley – in the north and Madhya Pradesh, the emergence of 00 33 to 200 BCE. After its decline, the second urban phase, the Vedic period, the Gangetic ground, who was born, who was BC. Survived until the 6th century.

In this phase, the emergence of major cities, powerful states and Vedic culture – the foundation of Hinduism. As a result, urbanization of ancient India is often seen as a northern phenomenon, in which the North Aryans are “gentle” to the south of the Dravidian.

This is especially clear in the mainstream understanding of the spread of literacy.

It is believed that Ashokan Brahmi Script found on the rock edits of Ashoka, Maurian king of North and Central India, BC. The third century – most of the script in the South and South East Asia is the anterior.

Epigrades like Eravathham Mahadevan and Y Subbarayalu have argued that Tamil Brahmi Script – Tamil language spoken in Tamil Nadu and written in the Brahmi script – Ashokan Brahmi Script was an offshoot.

But now, the archaeologists of the Tamil Nadu state department say that excavation in Kyaladi is challenging the story.

“We have found a mural in the Tamil Brahmi script.

Former Professor of Marine Archeology at Tamil University, Epegraphist S Rajvelu Shri Kumar, said that other excavation sites in the state have also discovered murals in the Tamil Brahmi script of the 5th and fourth century in the Tamil Brahma script.

But some experts say that more research and evidence are needed to prove the archeology of the Tamil Brahmi script.

Another claim of the State Archeology Department, which harasses the wings, is that the murals found on the artwork in the keydone are similar to the Indus Kho Valley.

“People in the Indus Khoalley may have migrated to the south, which has led to the urbanization period in Kayaledi on the Ganga grounds,” Shri Kumar says that further excavation is required to fully understand the proportion of settlement.

But Ajit Kumar, a professor of archeology at Nalanda University in Bihar, says that this would not have been possible.

He said, “Considering the primary situation of the journey at that time, the people of the Indus Kho Valley could not have migrated to the south in large numbers to create civilization,” he said. He believes that the quests in the key can be compared to a small “settlement”.

While archaeologists argue over these findings, the politicians are already linking them to the Kyladi and the Indus Kho Valley – some claim that both are at the same time or the Indus Valley was part of the South Indian or Dravid, early in the south.

ASI Archaeologist Shri. The dispute over Ramakrishnan’s transfer – who led the excavation of the key – intensified the political tension of this site.

In 2 in, after the two excavations, the ASI handed over the protocol to Shri Ramakrishnan. The Tamil Nadu government alleged that the federal agency had deliberately obstructed the Tamil proudness.

Mr. Ramakrishnan’s request for amending his kildi report – the request of the ASI – lacking scientific rigidity – has intensified the controversy. He refused, urging his conclusions that he adopted standard archaeological methods.

In June, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin refused to publish the “attack on Tamil culture and pride” in the report of Shri Ramakrishnan. Minister of State Thangam Theirnsuu accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of the federal government of deliberately suppressing the history of Tamil to erase the history of Tamil.

India’s Culture Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat has now explained that Shri. Ramakrishnan’s report was not rejected by the ASI, but expert feedback has still been fixed.

Back to the Koli Museum, the children explore the exhibition during a school visit, while the construction is on the construction of the open-air museum at the excavation site.

Journalist Somia Ashok remembers the thrill of her first visit on Kirali.

She said, “It is a journey to explain history better to understand your shared past. Through the small signals – like carnalian beads in the northwest or Roman copper coins – Caldie revealed that your ancestors were more than you realized,” she says.

“The present has given more shapes than the history we see today.”