Daimabad, the southernmost site of the Harappan Civilisation, is located in which present-day state?
- A.Gujarat
- B.Rajasthan
- C.Maharashtra
- D.Haryana
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, Maharashtra. Daimabad lies on the Pravara, a tributary of the Godavari, in the Ahmednagar district of Maharashtra, and it marks the southern limit of the Harappan world. The site is famous for a hoard of solid bronze figures, among them a chariot drawn by two oxen with a driver standing on it, along with a rhinoceros, an elephant and a buffalo.
Option A, Gujarat, holds Lothal, Dholavira, Surkotada and Rangpur, but none of them is the southernmost. Option B, Rajasthan, holds Kalibangan on the Ghaggar. Option D, Haryana, holds Rakhigarhi and Banawali. Learn the four outer sites as a set: Sutkagendor in the west on the Makran coast of Baluchistan, Alamgirpur in the east on the Hindon in Uttar Pradesh, Manda in the north on the Chenab in Jammu and Daimabad in the south on the Pravara in Maharashtra. Examiners often ask this set as a direction question, so fix the four names and their directions together.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Great Bath of the Indus Valley Civilisation was found at which site?
- A.Harappa
- B.Mohenjo-daro
- C.Lothal
- D.Kalibangan
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The Great Bath stands in the citadel of Mohenjo-daro in Sindh. It is a brick tank about twelve metres long and seven metres wide, with flights of steps at two ends, small rooms around it and a layer of natural tar below the floor to stop water from seeping away.
Read the full explanation →The only Harappan site with an artificial dockyard has been identified at which place?
- A.Lothal
- B.Surkotada
- C.Chanhudaro
- D.Banawali
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Lothal lies on the Bhogava, a tributary of the Sabarmati in Gujarat, and its eastern side holds a large brick basin connected to the river by a channel.
Read the full explanation →Harappa was excavated in 1921 by which archaeologist?
- A.R. D. Banerji
- B.Sir John Marshall
- C.Daya Ram Sahni
- D.Mortimer Wheeler
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He dug at Harappa on the bank of the Ravi in 1921, and the finds from that season identified a wholly unknown urban culture, which was named after the site.
Read the full explanation →Evidence of a ploughed field, the earliest in the subcontinent, was found at which Harappan site?
- A.Dholavira
- B.Kalibangan
- C.Rakhigarhi
- D.Alamgirpur
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Kalibangan stands on the dry bed of the Ghaggar in the Hanumangarh district of Rajasthan. A field there, belonging to the pre-Harappan level, carries two sets of furrows crossing each other at right angles, showing that two crops were grown in the same plot at the same time.
Read the full explanation →Bricks used in Harappan houses were made in which fixed ratio of length, breadth and thickness?
- A.1:2:4
- B.2:2:1
- C.4:2:1
- D.3:2:1
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A Harappan burnt brick was four units long, two units broad and one unit thick, and the same proportion turns up at sites hundreds of kilometres apart.
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