Question : Discuss the patterns of trade during the Indus Valley Civilization. How for did it affect the nature of contemporary settlements in the Indian sub-continent?
(1994)
Answer : The near-sophisticated life led by the people in the cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro as well as the urbanized living in most of Indus valley sites, speaks of the prosperity of its people. Apart from the evidence of raw material used by the Harappan people, the Harappan seals found in Sumeria and the Sumerian seals in the Indus region, confirm the trading and commercial pursuits of the Harappan people. And the discovery of a dockyard ....
Question : Analyse the elements of urban civilisation in the Harappan Culture. What factors were responsible for its decline?
(2002)
Answer : Harappan civilisation was a bronze age culture which has been known to the world for its urbanism. Very special for its planned cities, drainage system and use of klin bricks for making massive structures. This was the largest civilisation in geographical extent during its own period. Till now thousands of sites have been discovered. Majority of sites are situated in India. According to recent discoveries, it has been found that the largest concentration of the ....
Question : Discuss salient features of the Indus Valley Civilization. Mention important places from where relices of Civilization have been recovered so far. Examine causes of its decline.
(1999)
Answer : The Harappan culture covered parts of Punjab, Sind, Balushistan, Gujarat, Rajasthan and the fringes of western Uttar Pradesh. It extended from Jammu in the north to the Narmada estuary in the South, and from the Makran coast of Baluchistan in the west to Meerut in the north-east. The area formed a triangle and accounted form about 1,299,600 square kilometres. Recent Carbon-14 datings indicate the period of the mature Harappan civilization to be from C.2,800/2,900-1,800 B.C. ....
Question : “The continuity of the Indus civilization into later ages was not confined to the religious and spiritual fields alone.” Analyse the statement.
(1997)
Answer : A great number of features including concepts of the Harappan civilization did reappear in later Indian civilization but the principal question of how and when them came to be resurrected to become part and parcel of the later day Indian civilization, are not answered till today. But the continuity of the Indus civilization into later ages was not confined to the religious and spiritual fields alone. The Harappan civilization was basically based on cities. Their ....
Question : The Religion of the Indus civilization.
(1996)
Answer : The various articles discovered at different sites in the Indus valley suggest that these people indulged in some sort of image-worship. The most commonly found figurine is that of a female deity who has generally been identified with “Shakti” or “the Mother goddess”. The people of India, in fact, have always held a belief in a female energy as the source of all creation. Side by side with the worship of the Mother goddess the ....
