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Describe any three features of the Harrapan drainage system.
Concept: Mohenjodaro: a Planned Urban Centre
Consider the following statements regarding Harappan Culture and choose the correct option.
- The most unique feature was the development of urban centres.
- The settlements were divided into two sections i.e. the citadel and the lower town.
- Drainage system was ordinary and unplanned.
- Roads were not laid out along a grid pattern.
Concept: Mohenjodaro: a Planned Urban Centre
Identify the craft centres related to the Harapan civilization with the help of the given information.
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Concept: Finding Out About Craft Production
Read the source given below and answer the questions that follow.
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“There cannot be any divided loyalty” Govind Ballabh Pant argued that in order to become loyal citizens people had to stop focusing only on the community and the self: For the success of democracy one must train himself in the art of self-discipline. In democracies, one should care less for himself and more for others. There cannot be any divided loyalty. All loyalties must exclusively be centred around the State. If in a democracy, you create rival loyalties, or you create a system in which any individual or group, instead of suppressing his extravagance, cares nought for larger or other interests, then democracy is doomed. |
- How did G.B Pant encourage citizens to make a unified nation?
- Why did he urge citizens for loyal towards nation?
- How was loyalty considered the base of the social pyramid?
Concept: The Earliest States
Identify the given image from the following options.
Concept: New Notions of Kingship
“Magadha was the most powerful Mahajanpada ‘. Examine the statement.
Concept: The Earliest States
Assertion (A): Asoka inscribed his messages to his subjects and officials on stone surfaces.
Reason (R): He wanted to proclaim what religion should be followed by all.
Concept: An Early Empire
Choose the correct option from the following statements with reference to the Magadha empire.
Concept: The Earliest States
Who among the following was the best-known ruler of the Satavahana dynasty?
Concept: Social Differences: Within and Beyond the Framework of Caste
Identify the ruler of the Satavahana dynasty with the help of the following information:
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Concept: Social Differences: Within and Beyond the Framework of Caste
Which one of the following statements is the correct explanation of ‘Endogamy’?
Concept: Kinship and Marriage: Many Rules and Varied Practices
Describe the familial relationship observed during the Mahabharat era.
Concept: Kinship and Marriage: Many Rules and Varied Practices
Describe the Social implications of access to Resources during the Mahabharat period.
Concept: Beyond Birth Resources and Status
How is Mahabharata a colossal epic to understand social behaviour of early historic period?
Concept: Handling Texts Historians and the Mahabharata
Analyse the role of Indian Sanskritist V.S. Suthankar and his team in the preparation of critical edition of Mahabharata.
Concept: The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
Identify the picture from the given options.
Concept: The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata
“Be lamps unto yourselves as all of you must work out your own liberation.” Identify the essence of the words of Buddha from the options given below.
Concept: The Teachings of the Buddha
Read the following source carefully and answer the questions that follow:
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Sanchi in the nineteenth century |
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The most wonderful ancient buildings in the state of Bhopal are at Sanchi Kanakhera, a small village under the brow of a hill some 20 miles northeast of Bhopal which we visited yesterday. We inspected the stone sculptures and statues of the Buddha and an ancient gateway. The ruins appear to be the object of great interest to European gentlemen. Major Alexander Cunningham stayed several weeks in this neighbourhood and examined these ruins most carefully. He took drawings of the place, deciphered the inscription, and bored shafts down these domes. The results of his investigations were described by him in an English work. |
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From SHAHJAHAN BEGUM, NAWAB OF BHOPAL (ruled 1868-1901), Taj-ul Iqbal Tarikh Bhopal (A History of Bhopal), translated by H.D. Barstow, 1876. |
- Why was Sanchi an interest to Alexander Cunningham?
- How was Sanchi related with Buddhism?
- How did Shahjahan Begum conserve Sanchi's stupa?
Concept: A Glimpse of Sanchi
Ashoka erected a pillar at ______ to mark that he had visited that place.
Concept: Stupas
Who wrote the book Kitab-ul-Hind?
Concept: Al-biruni and the Kitab-ul-hind
