TN to carry int’l epigraphy meet from Feb 11 to 14 | Chennai Information – The Occasions of India

Chennai: The state govt will organise a four-day worldwide epigraphy convention within the metropolis from Feb 11 to 14.Greater than 50 epigraphists from throughout the nation and overseas, together with Switzerland, France, and Sri Lanka, will participate within the convention. They’ll current papers on the newest findings on numerous themes, together with inscriptions on hero stones, commerce guilds, oil presses, and sluices. “Tamil Nadu has the best variety of inscriptions to date documented in the whole nation. These inscriptions mirror the social, cultural, political, financial, and technological elements of the folks from the early historic to the medieval interval,” mentioned professor Ok Rajan, tutorial and analysis adviser, Tamil Nadu state division of archaeology.

Tamil Nadu undertook a challenge to doc all sluice inscriptions within the state. A e book on the normal water administration system, written primarily based on sluice inscriptions, is more likely to be launched on the convention.Some students may even current papers about political administration and social life in the course of the time of the medieval Cholas and Pandyas.“The inscriptions are the first supply, as they mirror the society of their up to date interval with none interpolation. This additionally reveals the evolution of the script, language, administrative system, land measurement, maritime commerce, and taxation,” mentioned R Sivanandam, joint director of the Tamil Nadu state division of archaeology.Some classes may even cowl subjects equivalent to copper plate inscriptions, palm leaf manuscripts, and previous cash minted by kings.The state division of archaeology additionally plans to launch new volumes on stone inscriptions to assist analysis students.Final month, the state archaeology division performed a global science symposium on latest scientific research at archaeological websites in Tamil Nadu. Students from throughout the nation and around the globe attended the convention.