Ponniyin Selvan 2 Actors Feel School Textbooks Have Been Unfair to Indigenous Empires

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Aishwarya Lekshmi and actor Vikram and Karthi actually really feel {{that a}} certain stage of unfairness has been meted out to the indigenous empires or dynasties of India by our education system, largely.

Published: April 28, 2023 8:26 PM IST

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Ponniyin Selvan 2 Actors Feel School Textbooks Have Been Unfair to Indigenous Empires

Ponniyin Selvan 2 Actors on School-Level History: Actress Aishwarya Lekshmi and actor Vikram and Karthi, whose interval film ‘Ponniyin Selvan: 2’ launched in theatres on Friday, actually really feel {{that a}} certain stage of unfairness has been meted out to the indigenous empires or dynasties of India by our education system, largely. Recently, the eradicating of references to the Mughal dynasty from the coursebooks in Uttar Pradesh sparked an argument and induced debate spherical what have to be the part of lecturers in historic previous. The indigenous empires of India have very a lot much less level out inside the school stage historic previous books as compared with the dynasties that arrived in India as a part of the conquest.

Talking to IANS, Aishwarya Lekshmi talked about: “From what I know, yes there has been some level of unfairness towards the indigenous empires of India. It would take a lot of research to get a little bit of information about them in that direction. Kalki’s novel ‘Ponniyin Selvan’ (on which the Mani Ratnam magnum opus is based) is actually a window to the 10th century of southern India, how progressive we were at that time and how much chasing westernisation led us to go back in time.”

Actor Vikram seconded Aishwarya’s as he feels that Indian society was pretty progressive once more then for its time. He talked about: “At that time, America wasn’t even discovered and we had thriving societies under different empires.”

Karthi, who performs Vallavaraiyan, inside the film, shared with IANS: “Only when the British came, they started doing a lot of research and started documenting the history. I’m sure a history student would know a lot more about each dynasty as per their specialisation. But, for school level history a proper panel of intellectuals should sit and decide what should be included in the course material to give a holistic view.”

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Published Date: April 28, 2023 8:26 PM IST