Consider the following information: Archaeological Site : State : Description 1. Chandraketugarh : Odisha : Trading Port town 2. Inamgaon : Maharashtra : Chalcolithic site 3. Mangadu : Kerala : Megalithic site 4. Salihundam : Andhra Pradesh : Rock-cut cave shrines In which of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
- A.1 and 2
- B.2 and 3
- C.3 and 4
- D.1 and 4
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, 2 and 3. Inamgaon is a Chalcolithic site in Maharashtra and Mangadu is a megalithic site in Kerala; rows 1 and 4 each have an error.
Inamgaon, on the Ghod river in Pune district, is one of the best-studied Chalcolithic villages of the Deccan, with Malwa and Jorwe phases, mud houses, granaries and burials of children in urns. Mangadu, near Kollam in Kerala, has yielded megalithic burials with iron tools and black-and-red pottery, typical of the South Indian Iron Age.
Row 1 is wrong: Chandraketugarh was indeed an ancient trading town, but it lies in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, not Odisha. Row 4 is wrong: Salihundam, in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh, is a Buddhist site of brick stupas, chaityas and monasteries on a hill by the Vamsadhara river, not rock-cut cave shrines.
So A and D are wrong because they include row 1, and C is wrong because it includes row 4.
Exam tip: Chandraketugarh = West Bengal port town; Inamgaon = Jorwe Chalcolithic; Salihundam = Buddhist stupas, Srikakulam.
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