Match List I with List II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

The correct answer is Option (3) → A-II, B-III, C-I, D-IV

The correct match is:

Explanation:

S.N. Roy is the author of 'The Story of Indian Archaeology'. 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.

Daya Ram Sahni was the Indian archaeologist who discovered Harappa.

In 1944 R.E.M. Wheeler took over as Director-General of the ASI. He recognized the need to follow the stratigraphy of the mound instead of uniform horizontal lines. He brought military precision to the practice of archaeology, rectifying the shortcomings of Marshall's approach.

John Marshall was the one who, in 1924, announced the discovery of a new civilization in the Indus Valley to the world, which was the Harappan civilization. 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.