Which of the following pair is correctly matched:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Amrendra Nath - Rakhigarhi

Option (1) Daya Ram Sahni - Dholavira — Incorrect. Daya Ram Sahni began excavations at Harappa in 1921. Dholavira was excavated much later, from 1990.

Option (2) S.R. Rao - Harappa — Incorrect. S.R. Rao began excavations at Lothal in 1955, not at Harappa.

Option (3) Amrendra Nath - Rakhigarhi — Correct. Amrendra Nath started excavations at Rakhigarhi in 1997. The site, in Haryana, later also became the centre of archaeogenetic research from 2013.

Option (4) R.S. Bisht - Lothal — Incorrect. R.S. Bisht began excavations at Dholavira in 1990. Lothal was S.R. Rao’s site.

Tip: All four names and years come from the timeline at the end of the chapter. A chapter timeline takes ten minutes to revise, and here it decides a whole question.