History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2011 History
Which of the following games was known to the people of the Indus Valley?
AChariot racing
BGame of dice ✓ Correct
CPolo
DHorse riding
Correct answer: (B) Game of dice — The game of dice was known to the people of the Indus Valley, so the answer is the game of dice.
Explanation
★The game of dice was known to the people of the Indus Valley, so the answer is the game of dice.
★Excavations have yielded cubical dice that show gaming was a popular pastime in Harappan towns.
★The Harappans did not use the horse, so chariot racing, polo and horse riding were unknown to them.
★The horse appears clearly in India only later, in the Vedic age that followed.
★This contrast is often used to mark the Harappan culture off from the later Aryan culture.
★The dice link the Indus people to a long Indian tradition of gaming seen later in the Mahabharata.
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