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Question
Answer the following question.
What information do we get from inscriptions?
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Solution
The Inscriptions provide us the information about rulers, the extent of their empires, important events, and also about the religious and cultural life of people in a particular period.
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| Column A | Column B |
| 1. Paintings | (a) Politics |
| 2. Monuments | (b) epigraphy |
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