………………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”.

Related MCQs

• ………………. 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 ……………. have identified two phases of NBP culture, the first being the formative one and the second being the mature one.
• ……………. in his book Ancient India says,” The Harappan script is not alphabetical but mainly pictographic”.
• The ……………… culture was essentially an urban culture.
• The culture in which huge stone slabes were used encircle burial places was called the ……………… culture.
• ……. is the author of ‘An Introduction to the Study of Indian History’.
• ………………. 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 Brahmi script which was a riddle for a long time was deciphered by ……………… in 1837.