Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | Authors | ||
| (A) | Material Culture and Social Formation in Early India | (I) | D.N.Jha |
| (B) | Inscriptions of Ashoka | (II) | D.C.Sircar |
| (C) | Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas | (III) | R.S.Sharma |
| (D) | Early India: A Concise History | (IV) | Romila Thapar |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
Each book in List-I is matched with the historian who wrote it.
(A) Material Culture and Social Formation in Early India — this matches (III) R.S.Sharma. Ram Sharan Sharma’s study of how the use of iron and the spread of farming shaped early Indian society was published in 1983 as Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India.
(B) Inscriptions of Ashoka — this matches (II) D.C.Sircar. Dines Chandra Sircar was a leading epigraphist, a scholar of inscriptions, and edited Ashoka’s edicts.
(C) Ashoka and the Decline of the Mauryas — this matches (IV) Romila Thapar. It was her first book (1961), on Ashoka’s policy of dhamma and the fall of the Mauryan empire after him.
(D) Early India: A Concise History — this matches (I) D.N.Jha. Dwijendra Narayan Jha wrote this short survey of the history of early India.
Note: It seems that there is a mistake in the original NTA paper, which prints ‘Material Culture and Social Formation in Early India’ when the title of R.S. Sharma’s book is ‘Material Culture and Social Formations in Ancient India’. The match is not affected.