This Art & Culture quiz on Pottery Traditions of India: Harappan to Painted Grey Ware and NBPW puts 10 multiple-choice questions to you, the verified MCQs published with GK24's note on the topic. Every question carries a full explanation of why the correct option is right and why the other options are wrong, so you learn the fact behind the answer rather than the letter. Attempt it right after reading the note, keep to the timer, and use the explanations at the end to mark what needs another look. Sit it again before the exam as a quick revision of the topic.
10 questions with answers and explanations
Painted Grey Ware is generally associated with which period of Indian history?
Painted Grey Ware is a fine, thin, wheel made grey pottery decorated with simple black lines, dots and spirals, dated roughly between 1100 and 600 BCE.
Read the full explanation →Northern Black Polished Ware is the characteristic pottery of which phase?
Northern Black Polished Ware, usually shortened to NBPW, is a very fine clay pottery with a glossy, almost mirror like surface in steel grey to jet black.
Read the full explanation →Ochre Coloured Pottery has mainly been found in which region of India?
Ochre Coloured Pottery, usually abbreviated to OCP, is a worn, ill fired, orange to ochre pottery whose colour rubs off on the fingers because the surface has been damaged by water.
Read the full explanation →Which statement best describes the pottery of the mature Harappan civilisation?
Mature Harappan potters used the fast wheel and fired their pots well, producing a sturdy red ware on which they painted in black over a red slip.
Read the full explanation →Rouletted Ware found at Arikamedu is evidence of which kind of contact?
Rouletted Ware is a wheel turned dish with concentric rows of small impressed dots on the inner surface, made by holding a toothed tool against the turning pot.
Read the full explanation →Jorwe ware, a matt painted black on red Chalcolithic pottery, is mainly associated with which present day state?
The Jorwe culture is named after the village of Jorwe in Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, and its pottery is a matt surfaced, black on red painted ware found in large quantities at Inamgaon, Daimabad, Nevasa and Chandoli.
Read the full explanation →The famous Blue Pottery of India is associated with which city?
Blue Pottery is a Turko Persian technique that reached Rajasthan through Mughal and Kashmiri craftsmen and was encouraged by the rulers of Jaipur.
Read the full explanation →The shining black pottery of Nizamabad is a craft of which state?
The black pottery of Nizamabad comes from a town of that name in Azamgarh district of Uttar Pradesh.
Read the full explanation →Longpi pottery, made without a potter wheel from weathered rock mixed with clay, belongs to which state?
Longpi pottery, also called Longpi Hampai, is made in the Longpi villages of Ukhrul district in Manipur by the Tangkhul Naga community.
Read the full explanation →The Panchmura terracotta horse, one of the best known clay crafts of India, comes from which state?
The long necked terracotta horse of Panchmura village in Bankura district of West Bengal is made in parts on the wheel and by hand, then joined and fired, and it has become a symbol of Indian handicrafts.
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