Top 250+ Solved Early Societies in India MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developeda script known as …………….
a. brahmi
b. pictographic
c. sanskrit
d. malayalam
Q. ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is notalphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
a. ram sharan sharma
b. dr. a.d. pusalkar
c. mortimer wheeler
d. r. banerji
Q. ………………in ‘The History and Culture of Indian People’, Vol. 1remarks, “The large number of signs precludes the possibility of the script being alphabetic.It was mainly phonetic, most of signs standing for open or close syllables and the remainder functioning as determinates or ideograms”.
a. dr. d. pusalkar
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. ………………. in his research work ‘Decipherment of the Indus Script’ says that the Indus people used the phonetic script in the beginningwhich slowly and slowly in the late Harappan period assumed the alphabetic pattern.
a. dr. s.r. rao
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. sir john marshall
Q. ………………. is of the view that the Indus script was read from left toright.
a. sir john marshall
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. ………… believes that the Indus script can be read from right to left.
a. dr. prem nath
b. mortimer wheeler
c. r.d. banerji
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. According to ……………., “Perhaps the discovery of some bilingualinscriptions in those areas with which the Indus people had close trade relations might give us the right clue to the decipherment of the Indus script”.
a. r.d. banerji
b. mortimer wheeler
c. dr. a.d. pusalkar
d. dr. s.r. rao
Q. The word Veda is derived from …… word ‘vid’ which means ‘to know’.
a. hindi
b. malayalam
c. sanskrit
d. telugu
Q. …………… are essentially a compilation of prayers and hymns, offeredby different families of poets and sages to various Gods.
a. the vedas
b. sangam literature
c. periyapuranam
d. ramayanam
Q. The OCP was discovered in the archaeological sites of …….. in 1950’s.
a. u.p
b. delhi
c. bengal
d. madhya pradesh
Q. Black and Red Ware (BRW) have been found at ……… in between OCPand PGW levels during the excavations conducted in the early 1960’s.
a. atranjikhera
b. alangirpur
c. hasthinapuri
d. lothal
Q. The ……… was the oldest and the most important book of the Aryans.
a. yajurveda
b. samaveda
c. rigveda
d. atharva veda
Q. The ………….. contains both hymns and commentaries. It describesthe performance of sacrifices.
a. atharva veda
b. rigveda
c. samaveda
d. yajurveda
Q. …………… called the Upanishads as, “the most wonderful compositionof human mind”.
a. james mill
b. mortimer wheeler
c. william johnes
d. max muller