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Overseas: Students of Tagore Arts College explaining the displays at the “Oceanic Culture” exhibition in Puducherry on Monday.

PUDUCHERRY: The Old Light House on the beach road has turned into an exhibition hall displaying photographs of artefacts, paintings, sculptures and much more from various ages in history including the pre-historic and Iron Ages.

Tracing the cultural exchanges along the coast, the exhibition on “Oceanic Culture” aims to throw light on the culture spread through the ocean.

The photographs comprise artefacts surveyed across the Coromandel Coast, said C. Ravichandran, lecturer at Tagore Arts College and also an archaeologist.

The exhibition, which is part of the Indian Diaspora Cultural Meet organised by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, looks at various periods including the Roman period, Pallava and Chola regime and the buildings, sculptures and artefacts belonging to the respective ages.

The archaeological sites in Puducherry – Arikkamedu, Perambai and Suthukeni – find place in the exhibition. “Fossils, formations, pre-historic materials, Iron Age burials from Perambai, jewels from Suthukeni, materials of Early Christian era and Roman period are part of the exhibition,” he said.

The Indian Ocean, ports through the ages, Coromandel Coast, Puducherry through the ages and Indian diaspora were the wide topics of the exhibition, he added.

Around 10 students of the departments of history and tourism of Tagore Arts College have been involved in explaining the exhibits to visitors at the exhibition.

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