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Question 1
Appeared in Year: 2016
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Delineate and account for the regional characteristics of the Neolithic period in India. (15 marks)
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Neolithic Period in India
- Neolithic age represented the final stage of technological development for cultural evolution among pre-historic humans it is characterized by the use of stone tools, shape by polishing or grinding, the domestication of animals or plants the establishment of permanent villages and practice of such craft as pottery and weavi…
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Question 2
Appeared in Year: 2016
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Evaluate Jonaraja՚s account of the reign of Zain-ul-Abidin. (10 marks)
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Jonaraja՚s Account of the Reign of Zain-Ul-Abidin
- Jonaraja was a Sanskrit poet and renowned Kashmiri historian in his work “Dvitya Rajataraṅgini” is was a continuation of Kalhana՚s Rajataraṅgini and brings about the chronicle of the Kashmiri՚s kings.
- Jonaraja՚s gave a detail account of Zain-ul-Abidin,
- In his Dvitiya Rajataraṅgini, Jonaraja has widely …
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Question 3
Appeared in Year: 2021
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Identify the following places marked on the map supplied to you and write a short note of about 30 words on each of them in your Question-cum-Answer Booklet. Locational hints for each of the places marked on the map are given below: 50 (Paper 1)
1. Palaeolithic Site
2. Mesolithic Site
3. Neolithic Site
4. Neolithic-Chalcolithic Site
5. Harappan Site
6. Proto Historic and Historic Site
7. Inscriptional Site
8. Jain Monastic Site
9. Coin Hoard
10. Palaeolithic Site
11. Terracotta Site
12. Rock Cut Caves
13. Ancient Learning Centre
14. Political and Cultural Centre
15. Buddhist Site:
16. Ancient Port
17. Early Historic Site
18. Ivory Hoard
19. Buddhist Monastic Centre
20. Temple Complex
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1. Palaeolithic Site (Attirampakkam)
- Attirampakkam is a palaeolithic site is situated in Kortalaiyar river basin, Tamil Nadu, Northwest Chennai.
- British geologist Robert Bruce discovered this site in 1863.
- A sequence of lower, middle, and upper Palaeolithic cultures has been revealed through the excavations after the middle Palaeolithic.
- Around 1.5 yea…
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Question 4
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Identify the following places marked on the map supplied to you and write a short note of about 30 words on each of them in your Question-cum-Answer Booklet. Locational hint a for each of the places marked on the map are given below seriatim: 5
i. Palaeolithic site
ii. Mesolithic site with burials
iii. Neolithic pit-dwelling
iv. Early village settlement
v. Neolithic site
vi. Neolithic Chalcolithic Site
vii. Harappan UNESCO site
viii. Megalithic burial Site
ix. Place of Second Sangam
x. Earliest Satavahana capital
xi. Place of an inscribed statue of Ashoka
xii. First Gupta hoard of coins
xiii. Hoard of metal sculptures
xiv. Ancient port
xv. Oldest Jesuit church
xvi. Centre of Gandhara art
xvii. Buddhist monastery
xviii. Place of earliest Vishnu temple
xix. Buddhist monastery
xx. Place of earliest Vishnu temple
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i. Palaeolithic site — Didwana
- Location: Nagaur district of western Rajasthan.
- Period: Lower and Middle Paleolithic stone tools in the Mesolithic period.
- Highlight: By 7000 BCE, this site had also increased the use of cereal pollen. This suggests a higher rainfall rate, in contrast to the present situation of increased aridity. This site has also give…
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