Karnataka and Tamilnadu Timelines

This is a very broad and imprecise comparison of the dynasties that ruled Tamilnadu and Karnataka from the known historical sources. I drafted this for a lecture on temples, as part of Tamil Heritage Trust's January 2016 Seventh site seminar, tentatively titled Pattadakkal Pravesham.

A more detailed and precise timeline of these dynasties may be more useful for those history enthusiasts. This is similar to the Gujarat-Tamilnadu timeline I prepared earlier for our Fifth Site Seminar to Gujarat.

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School Education in Tamil Nadu - Jeyamohan

What follows below is my summary in English of Jayamohan's essay -in Tamil - on Government education in schools.

Teachers unions rule the roost - there is no accountability in school education.

When Collector Nagarajan and Education Officer Radhakrishnan enforced discipline and accountabilty, Kanyakumari district jumped from 5th to 1st place in 10th exams in 2011-12 and 13th to 6th place in 12th exams.

Most teachers don't work, they demand coolies to come to after school tuition. Exceptions are astounding people of great character.

This year teachers protested about "Supervisor Dictatorship" because 3 School Principals were suspended. Next day, Govt Education department was surrounded by teachers unions.

Govt teacher jobs are obtained by bribes to ministers or officials. There is no sense of duty or honesty among most govt school teachers. Very rarely , and only very mildly, is a teacher punished.

In hills of Erode, the midday meal cooks ARE the teachers. A female teacher complains "I have a husband and children to look after. How can I teach?" !!

This year, the TN Govt held a teachers' evaluation test. Questions were of the quality of "What is the capital of India? What is 10+1?" Most teachers failed this test. After severe protests from teachers unions, question quality was reduced "Delhi is the capital of India, yes or no?". Now, 50% failed. Illiterate people would pass this easily.

After a case was filed in the Supreme Court, the Judges decided this quality was good enough & these mediocrities were re-appointed as teachers. I doubt these people have a read anything after the application form when they got their jobs.

Education department should fire these people and hire competent ones. These lousy teachers get better pay than most engineers. The only ones who suffer are those children who cannot afford a private education.

Gujarat and Tamilnadu - Timelines of Political History

In preparation for the Gujarat site seminar for the Tamil Heritage Trust, I lectured on the political history of Gujarat from 3rd century BC to 13th century AD. I prepared a chart comparing the histories of Gujarat and Tamilnadu, as we consider them today. It is primarily a listing of the major dynasties that ruled, and some major invasions. But this and similar timelines may prove useful as reference frameworks.

Dynasty names like Maitraka and Chola are in black; the name of some king of each dynasty is in red; invader or battle name is in blue or green.

References

1. A History of Gujarat - From the earliest period to the Present time by Edalji Dosabhai, first published 1894, Asian Education Services reprint 1986.

2. A History of South India by Nilakanta Sastri, Oxford University Press.

3. A History of Gujarat - Including a survey of its Chief Architecturl Monuments and Inscriptions by Khan Bahadur, MS Commissariat, Longmans Green and Co., 1938.

4. Wikipedia articles on Rudradaman, Satavahanas, Kushanas, Indo-Scythians.

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