……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic”.

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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.
• Kalibangan site was excavated by …………… in the 1960’s which have the evidences of pre-Harappan and Harappan habitations.
• The …………….. pre-state society in ancient India is generally considered as a lineage society, which was mainly pastoral and mobile.
• ………………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”.
• ‘Material Culture and Social Formation in Ancient India’ is the book of ….
• Harappan Culture spread over various parts of Northern and Central India like Rupar and Bara in the east Punjab, Alamgirpur near Meerut in U.P. and Ragpur and Lothal in …………….
• ………….. were the indivisible factors of the Harappan Culture.
• ……………. was the large city of the Harappan civilization.
• Kalibangan in …………… along the dried up bed of the river Ghagger is another important Harappan city.
• ………….. was in charge of the excavations of the Harappan sites in Gujarat.