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1. Answer any five questions of the following:
(a) Who is known as the father of Indian per-history? In which Stone
Age, Microliths were commonly found?
(b) In which two Harappan sites large granaries were found?
(c) Which two towns of Indus Valley Civilization were located on the
bank of Ghagghar river?
(d) Which Harappan site was divided into three parts? At which Indus
Valley Site, the remains of horse bones have been found?
(e) Name two main agricultural products during Vedic period?
(f) What was the Jana during Vedic period? Who was the headman of
a Jana or Tribe?
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
1 a Robert Bruce Foote. Microliths were most commonly found in Mesolithic era.
b In Mohenjo-daro and Harappa, granaries were found in citadels, where the ruling elite lived
c Such urban centres include Harappa, Ganeriwala, Mohenjo-daro in modern-day Pakistan, and Dholavira, Kalibangan, Rakhigarhi, Rupar, and Lothal in modern-day India. In total, more than 1,000 cities and settlements have been found, mainly in the general region of the Indus and Ghaggar-Hakra Rivers and their tributaries.
d. Dholavira. Surkotada is an archaeological site located in Rapar Taluka of Kutch district, Gujarat, India which belongs to the Indus Valley Civilisation.
e. The Vedic people cultivated the crops of wheat, barley, and other eatable nuts which were the primary food items.
f. The polity of the Early Vedic period was basically a tribal polity with the tribal chief in the centre. The tribe was called Jana and the tribal chief was called Rajana. Rajana looked after the affairs of the tribe with the help of other tribal members and two tribal assemblies i.e. Sabha and Samiti.