………………. 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.

Related MCQs

• 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”.
• ………………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”.
• ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
• Kalibangan site was excavated by …………… in the 1960’s which have the evidences of pre-Harappan and Harappan habitations.
• The Indus people had developed the art of writing and even developed a script known as …………….
• ………………. 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.
• 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 …………….
• 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 ………….