The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developed a script known as …………….

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• ………………. in his research work ‘Decipherment of the Indus Script’ says that the Indus people used the phonetic script in the beginning which slowly and slowly in the late Harappan period assumed the alphabetic pattern.
• According to ……………., “Perhaps the discovery of some bilingual inscriptions in those areas with which the Indus people had close trade relations might give us the right clue to the decipherment of the Indus script”.
• The Indus people were highly interested in arts and crafts. The bronze figure of the dancing girl found at …………… was an excellent piece of art.
• The Indus people had a fairly advanced type of religion. Their chief deity was the Mother Goddess ………….
• ………………. is of the view that the Indus script was read from left to right.
• ………… believes that the Indus script can be read from right to left.
• ………………in ‘The History and Culture of Indian People’, Vol. 1 remarks, “The large number of signs precludes the possibility of the script being alphabetic.It was mainly phonetic, most of signs standing for open or close syllables and the remainder functioning as determinates or ideograms”.
• ………… mentions the names of learned women like Apala, Ghoshala, Lopa mutra, Vishwara etc.who had even composed hymns.
• A glorious civilization flourished in the valley of the river Indus and its neighbouring regions prior to the rise of the Chalcolithic Age.This civilization known as the …………. culture.
• ………… had appointed a special group of officers called ‘Dharma Mahamatras’to propogate Dharma among the people including women.