Alamgirpur, regarded as the eastern most site of the Harappan civilisation, lies in which district of Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Meerut
- B.Etah
- C.Bareilly
- D.Kaushambi
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, Meerut. Alamgirpur stands on the bank of the Hindon, a tributary of the Yamuna, in Meerut district, and it is taken as the eastern limit of the Harappan civilisation; pottery, beads and the impression of cloth are among its finds. The same district holds Hastinapur, a Painted Grey Ware site of the later iron age, so Meerut carries two separate answers.
Option B, Etah, is the district of Atranjikhera, another Painted Grey Ware site but not Harappan. Option C, Bareilly, holds Ahichchhatra, the northern capital of Panchala. Option D, Kaushambi, is the Vatsa capital of the mahajanapada age, several centuries later than the Harappans. The chronology is worth keeping straight: Alamgirpur belongs to the bronze age, the rest to the iron age and after.
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Practice Questions
View allWhich of the following areas was known as Magadh in the ancient period?
- A.South of Ganga
- B.Between Ganga and Yamuna
- C.North of Ganga
- D.Between Yamuna and Chambal
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Magadha lay on the southern bank of the Ganga, in the region of present day Patna, Gaya and Nalanda, with its early capital at Rajagriha among the hills and later at Pataliputra at the meeting of the Ganga and the Son.
Read the full explanation →Kaushambi, near present day Prayagraj, was the capital of which mahajanapada?
- A.Kosala
- B.Vatsa
- C.Panchala
- D.Surasena
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The Vatsa mahajanapada lay in the Ganga and Yamuna doab with its capital at Kaushambi, and its best known ruler was Udayana, who appears in Sanskrit literature and in Buddhist texts alike.
Read the full explanation →The Buddha delivered his first sermon at which place?
- A.Bodh Gaya
- B.Sarnath
- C.Kushinagar
- D.Vaishali
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After his enlightenment the Buddha walked to the deer park at Sarnath near Varanasi and preached to the five ascetics who had been his companions.
Read the full explanation →The Buddha attained mahaparinirvana at which place in present day Uttar Pradesh?
- A.Shravasti
- B.Sankisa
- C.Kushinagar
- D.Kaushambi
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Kushinara, the Kushinagar of today in eastern Uttar Pradesh, was a town of the Malla mahajanapada, and the Buddha died there between two sal trees at the age of eighty, a death traditionally dated to 483 BCE and remembered as the mahaparinirvana.
Read the full explanation →The Lion Capital, adopted as the State Emblem of India, comes from the Ashokan pillar at
- A.Lauriya Nandangarh
- B.Sarnath
- C.Rampurva
- D.Sanchi
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The capital of the Ashokan pillar at Sarnath carries four lions standing back to back on an abacus bearing four wheels and four animals, and it was adopted as the State Emblem of India on 26 January 1950.
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