Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short notes on the answer book on the places marked on the map:
(1994)
Question : Identify the following places marked on the map and write a short note of about 30 words on each of them. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below:
(2015)
Question : Identify the following places marked on the map and write notes of about 30 words on each of them. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim:
(2014)
Answer : (i) Gangaikonda Cholapu-ram: Gangaikonda Cholapuram was erected as the capital of the Cholas by Rajendra Chola-I, the son and successor of Rajaraja Chola. The city was founded by Rajendra Chola to commemorate his victory over the Pala Dynasty. The name means “The town of the chola who brought Ganga (water from Ganga) or who defeated (the kings near) Ganga”. It is now a small village, its past eminence only remembered by the existence of the ....
Question : Identify the following places marked on the map and write notes of about 30 words on each of them. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim:
(2013)
Answer : (i) Chopani-Mando: Chopani-Mando is an important site where fossil animal bones have been found in the gravels of all four depositional cycles of the Belan River. The third gravel contained bones of sheep and goats which are not indigenous to the region. They, it is supposed, might have been brought by migrant human groups, either from the Himalayas or from the western borderlands.
(ii) Bagor: The archaeological site of Bagor is a Late Mesolithic and neolithic ....
Question : Identify the following places marked on the map supplied to you and write notes of about 40 words on each of them in your answer book. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim:
(2012)
Answer : (i) A prehistoric site : Piklihal: It is an important archaeological site in the pre-historic era in Karnataka. It is a small village in Hingasugar taluk of Raichur district. It is neolithic site excavated by F.R. and Bridget Allchin in 1952. This site provided evidence of domesticated cattle, as well as sheep, goat, turtles and shellfish. The people who lived here used handmade brown terracotta vessels, some of them were finely polished, decorated with drawings ....
Question : Mark the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on them.
(2011)
Answer : (i) Chirand: Chirand lies on the bank of River Ghagra, 11 km east of Chapra in the state of Bihar. It is an important neolithic site. The chirand Neolithic Community practised agriculture and evidence for Rice, wheat, barely has been found. The site is also marked by the use of stone axes, blades, considerable bow implements and antler implements.
(ii) Kargil: Kargil is in Ladakh distirict of Jammu and Kashmir. The Kargil War was fought here ....
Question : Mark the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on them.
(2010)
Answer : (i) Korkai: Korkai is a small village in the Srivaikuntam taluk of Tuticorin district in Tamil Nadu, India. It is situated about 3 km north of the Thamirabarani River and about 6 km from the shore of Bay of Bengal. Korkai was the commercial capital and important port of the Pandyan Kingdom of the third Sangam age. At that time, it was located on the banks of the Tamraparani River and at the sea coast, ....
Question : Mark the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on these places marked by you.
(2009)
Answer : 1 Koldihwa: Neolithic archaeological site in Uttar Pradesh state of northern India dated between 4000-1200 BC. Koldihwa was an agricultural village of circular huts, with stone axes, bone and stone tools, pottery, and cattle pens; and early evidence of rice cultivation, found as impressions in ceramic vessels.
2. Kuchai: Kuchai is a pre-historic site situated at a distance of 8 km north of Baripad, Orissa Excavations at Kuchai yielded some Neolithic possessions of man. Potteries found ....
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(2007)
Answer : 1. Kot-diji: Kot-diji is situated on the bank of River Indus and has shown evidence of proto-Harappan Culture phase. The site reveals traces of defensive walls and well-aligned streets and houses with large communal five-place.
It also shows the use of highly sophisticated wheel-made pottery along with tools and weapons of stone, copper and bronze, besides artistic toys. There is plenty of evidence of suggest that the site of Kot-diji was destroyed by fire.
2. Kalibangan: Kalibanga ....
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following placed on the map supplied to you and write short notes on the answer book on the places marked on the map:
(2006)
Answer : 1. Konark: Konark is situated near Puri in the State of Orissa. It is a coastal town and is famous for the ‘Sun Temple’ which is also known as the Black Pagoda.
The temple was originally built in the tenth century and it was restructured in the fourteenth century by the Ganga King Narasimha I (1238-1269). The Konark temple represents the temple of the Nagara style.
2. Taxila: Taxila is situated near Rawalpindi in Pakistan. In ancient ....
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(2005)
Answer : 1. Mohenjodaro: It is situated on the bank of the Indus River, in the Sindh province of Pakistan. It is a Harappan site where R.D.Banerjee, Dayaram Sahni, Mackay, K.N.Dixit and M.S.Vats excavated the remains of Indus valley civilization. The city of Mohenjodaro was based on a grid plan; the main streets were as wide as 30 feet. They were straight and intersected each other at right angles thereby dividing the city into large rectangular blocks. ....
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(2004)
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(2003)
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(2000)
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short descriptive notes on places plotted by you on the map:
(1998)
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write brief historical notes on the places marked by you on the map:
(1997)
Question : Mark any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write brief notes on the places marked on the map.
(1996)
Question : Plot any fifteen of the following places on the map supplied to you and write short notes (about fifty words each) on the answer book on only the places marked on the map:
(1995)
