India, May 19 -- A thousand-year-old Tamil inscription reveals advanced governance, global diplomacy, and a legacy now being reclaimed

The recent engagement between India and the Netherlands has once again drawn attention to one of the most remarkable historical records of Tamil civilisation, the celebrated Leiden Plates. Their renewed prominence reflects not only the depth of India's civilisational past but also the growing efforts in recent years, under the leadership of Narendra Modi, to reclaim and reassert India's cultural legacy on the global stage.

What appears at first glance to be a set of copper plates is, in reality, a deeply layered civilisational document. It is a record of diplomacy, governance, cultural exchange and admin...