Who made the following statement: "Marshall left India three thousand years older than he had found her."
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → S.N. Roy
Writing of John Marshall’s announcement of a new civilisation in the Indus valley in 1924, S.N. Roy noted in The Story of Indian Archaeology that “Marshall left India three thousand years older than he had found her”.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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* A similar question.
NCERT (2026-27): “10.2 A new old civilisation … 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.…” |