History · Negotiating the Sources
UGC NET December 2024 History
Passage
The regimented cantonment of Harappa may suggest the priest-controlled industries of Sumer. It may even be permissible to propose a priest-king for Mohenjodaro. On the other hand, in such sculptural art as the Indus has produced there is no real affinity with the sculpture of Sumer. No one would mistake a stone carving from Mohenjodaro for one from Tell Asmar or Mari. The Indus terracottas are in a different world from those of Mesopotamia. The art of the Harappan seals has no close parallel in the whole history of glyptic. The particularities are literal, local interchange, while the common generalities are the product of stray seeds readily fertilized in similar historical and geographical settings.
Which of the following Harappan sites has yielded a terracotta model of a plough?
AShortughai
BKot Diji
CBanawali ✓ Correct
DLothal
Correct answer: (C) Banawali — The answer is Banawali.
Explanation
★The answer is Banawali.
★Banawali is located in the Hisar district of Haryana.
★Remains of three cultural phases, pre-Harappan, mature Harappan and late Harappan, have been found there.
★It was discovered in 1973-74 under the leadership of Ravindra Singh Bisht.
★Terracotta models of ploughs from Banawali and Cholistan and ploughed fields from Kalibangan show developed agriculture.
★So the terracotta model of a plough comes from Banawali.
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