Arrange in chronological order the following major advances in Indian Epigraphy beginning with the earliest to the most recent.
(A) D. C. Sircar publishes Indian Epigraphy
(B) James Prinsep deciphers Asokan Brahmi script
(C) First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica
(D) First issue of Epigraphia Indica
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → (B), (C), (D), (A)
Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions. Its major advances in India, from the earliest:
(B) James Prinsep deciphers Asokan Brahmi script — 1838. Prinsep, an officer of the East India Company’s mint, read the Brahmi script of Asoka’s inscriptions, which opened the way to India’s early political history.
(C) First issue of Epigraphia Carnatica — 1886, a journal of the inscriptions of south India (Mysore and Coorg), begun by B. Lewis Rice.
(D) First issue of Epigraphia Indica — 1888, the journal of Indian inscriptions published by the Archaeological Survey of India.
(A) D. C. Sircar publishes Indian Epigraphy — 1965, with his Indian Epigraphical Glossary in 1966.