The Brahmi script which was a riddle for a long time was deciphered by ……………… in 1837.

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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 had developed the art of writing and even developed a script known as …………….
• ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
• ………………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”.
• ………………. 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.
• The hymn in the later portion of the …………. for the first time describes the origin of the four varnas.
• According to the Jain accounts a terrible famine ravaged North India in the time of ……………… and lasted for twelve years.
• The …………….. pre-state society in ancient India is generally considered as a lineage society, which was mainly pastoral and mobile.