When jingoism reigns supreme, science takes a backseat. The recent announcement by Chief Minister M. K. Stalin that Iron Age began in Tamil Nadu is a case in point.

Releasing report by Tamil Nadu archeology dept at Anna Centenary Library, Stalin says samples excavated from archaeological sites in the state were sent to labs around the world.

The Iron Age began on Tamil soil, chief minister MK Stalin said on Thursday, offering test reports from top institutions and testimony from experts as proof to bolster a narrative that centres on ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. K. Stalin announced on Thursday that the Iron Age in Tamil Nadu began over 5,300 years ago. In a statement, the Chief Minister, who ...

Stalin said he was making the remarkable anthropological announcement, not only to India but to the whole world, that the “Iron Age began on Tamil soil”. The results were based on samples sent ...

Tamil Nadu chief minister M.K. Stalin on Thursday claimed that the “iron age” began in southern India 5,300 years ago, contesting accumulated archaeological evidence indicating that iron smelting ...

Chennai, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday claimed that the Iron Age began in the region and the use of iron on Tamil soil could be dated to the first quarter of 4th millennium BCE, ...

Debates over the antiquity of Tamil language, civilisation and culture have been raging for many decades in the academic and ...

Till now, the advent of the Iron Age in India was considered to be the painted grey ware culture in the northern Gangetic plains in around 1,500 BCE. Stalin’s comment comes amid a polarising ...