Match List I with List II.
| LIST I | LIST II | ||
| A. | S.N. Roy | I. | Director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944 |
| B. | Daya Ram Sahni | II. | The Story of Indian Archaeology |
| C. | R.E.M. Wheeler | III. | Discovered seals at Harappa |
| D. | John Marshall | IV. | In 1924, he announced the discovery of a new civilisation in the Indus Valley to the world |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV
(A) S.N. Roy — this matches (II) The Story of Indian Archaeology. In The Story of Indian Archaeology, S.N. Roy noted that “Marshall left India three thousand years older than he had found her.”
(B) Daya Ram Sahni — this matches (III) Discovered seals at Harappa. In the early decades of the twentieth century, seals were discovered at Harappa by archaeologists such as Daya Ram Sahni, in layers much older than Early Historic levels.
(C) R.E.M. Wheeler — this matches (I) Director of the Archaeological Survey of India in 1944. Wheeler took over as Director-General of the ASI in 1944 and made excavators follow the stratigraphy of the mound.
(D) John Marshall — this matches (IV) In 1924, he announced the discovery of a new civilisation in the Indus Valley to the world. Based on the seals found at Harappa and Mohenjodaro, John Marshall, Director-General of the ASI, made this announcement in 1924.
NCERT (2026-27): “10.2 A new old civilisation … Subsequently, seals were discovered at Harappa by archaeologists such as Daya Ram Sahni in the early decades of the twentieth century, in layers that were definitely much older than Early Historic levels. It was then that their significance began to be realised. Another archaeologist, Rakhal Das Banerji found similar seals at Mohenjodaro, leading to the conjecture that these sites were part of a single archaeological culture. Based on these finds, in 1924, John Marshall, Director-General of the ASI, announced the discovery of a new civilisation in the Indus valley to the world. As S.N. Roy noted in The Story of Indian Archaeology, ‘Marshall left India three thousand years older than he had found her.’ This was because similar, till-then-unidentified seals were found at excavations at Mesopotamian sites. It was then that the world knew not only of a new civilisation, but also of one contemporaneous with Mesopotamia.… 10.3 New techniques and questions … It was R.E.M. Wheeler, after he took over as Director-General of the ASI in 1944, who rectified this problem. Wheeler recognised that it was necessary to follow the stratigraphy of the mound rather than dig mechanically along uniform horizontal lines. Moreover, as an ex-army brigadier, he brought with him a military precision to the practice of archaeology.…” |