Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

History

Chapter

Ancient India: Bricks, Beads and Bones

Question:

In ‘The Story of Indian Archaeology’, who has noted that “Marshall left India three thousand years older than he had found her”.

(1) S.N. Roy
(2) Romila Thapar
(3) V.S. Sukthankar
(4) R.E.M. Wheeler

Options:

1

2

3

4

Correct Answer:

1

Explanation:

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 (Indus Valley), but also of one contemporaneous with Mesopotamia.