Telangana must lead in numismatics and heritage studies: Bhatti

HYDERABAD

Deputy Chief Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka said that Telangana should look arsenic a frontrunner successful the fields of numismatics (the survey of coins) and practice studies.

Speaking astatine a seminar organised by the Numismatics Society, connected the taxable “Coinage and Economy of Southern India” astatine the Marri Channa Reddy Human Resource Development Institute connected Thursday, Mr. Vikramarka hoped that the seminar, which is being held implicit 2 days, volition not stay conscionable an world lawsuit but service arsenic a spark — an intelligence lightning bolt — that would ignite caller ideas. “Cooperation among assorted institutions indispensable increase, young researchers should absorption connected interdisciplinary studies, and Telangana should beryllium astatine the forefront of numismatics and practice research,” helium said.

The Deputy Chief Minister stated that the Telangana Government is afloat committed to heritage-based research. Under the enactment of Tourism and Excise Minister Jupally Krishna Rao, the State Government is determined to make Telangana into a cardinal hub of technological study, taste preservation, and cognition production.

He noted that South India has 1 of the richest coinage traditions successful the world. From the Satavahanas and Ikshvakus, who expanded their commercialized networks done their coinage, to the creator splendour of the Kakatiyas and the grandeur of the Vijayanagara Empire, the coins of this portion basal arsenic symbols of innovation, craftsmanship, and blase statecraft. “Coins talk to us—they often talk loudly—about the taxation systems, minting technologies, commercialized priorities, and governmental visions of their time,” helium said.

Calling the seminar historically important successful itself, helium appreciated the Heritage Department for organising, for the archetypal clip successful its 114-year past arsenic the Archaeology & Museums Department, a broad nationalist seminar exclusively connected coins. He said it is simply a singular milestone for a section that has witnessed the emergence and autumn of empires. This seminar, helium added, is simply a substance of pridefulness not lone for Telangana but for some Telugu States.

Numismatics whitethorn look to beryllium the survey of tiny metallic pieces 1 tin clasp successful the hand, but erstwhile 1 looks closely, each coin reveals an full miniature world, helium said. Referring to the discoveries successful Telangana, helium said adjacent a azygous coin tin uncover immense history. In Koti Lingala, archaeologists recovered a singular Satavahana pb coin.

Telangana Heritage Director Arjuna Rao, Numismatic Society of India Chairman Dr. D. Raja Reddy, General Secretaries Prof. P.N. Singh and Prof. Binda Dattatreya, Deputy Director Nagaraju, and others.