In the past, we have had some discussions in the list regarding the date of the earliest Brahmi inscriptions. Recently, I came upon this discussion, in which a north Indian archaeologist fellow of Indian Council of Historical Research suggests that K. Rajan’s thesis that Tamil Brahmi is older than Aśokan Brahmi has come to be accepted now. Is this a new consensus among Indian historians? This discussion starts at 19m30s.
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Palaniappan