What lies beneath Keeladi: The uneasy politics of India’s past - கீழடிக்குக் கீழே புதைந்திருப்பது என்ன? இந்திய அரசியலைக் கலங்கடிக்கும் கடந்தகாலம்

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Since its discovery in 2014, the Keeladi excavation near Madurai has emerged as one of India’s most contested archaeological sites – celebrated by some as evidence of an early urban civilisation in South India, and dismissed by others as an exercise in political mythmaking. In her latest book, The Dig: Keeladi and the Politics of India’s Past, journalist Sowmiya Ashok traces the accidental unearthing of this ancient settlement and the political storm that followed. Her journey moves across India’s archaeological landscape – from early Iron Age sites in Tamil Nadu to the Harappan site of…