India’s first civilization was built along the Indus river, because it left behind rich silt when it flooded.. This allowed farmers to grow a surplus of food so that civilization could develop. To the east of the Indus, the Ganges River creates a large plain that is also good for farming.

When the Aryans arrived in India, they brought with them the horse, Sanskrit (the basis of the Hindi language) and the basis of Hinduism. They also brought war as well as the caste system, and erased all traces of the writing system of the Harappan civilization.

The two rivers that defined the Indus River Valley civilization are the Indus River and the Ghaggar-Hakra River.

Indus river valley

The Harappa site was first briefly excavated by Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1872-73, two decades after brick robbers carried off the visible remains of the city. He found an Indus seal of unknown origin. The first extensive excavations at Harappa were started by Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni in 1920.

R. D. Banerji

From the late 1950s, historians believed that Mohenjo-daro was destroyed due to tectonic shifts in the region. According to one version, tectonic movements blocked the course of lower Indus river which must have caused floods that submerged the city.

Mohenjo Daro

Dancing Girl (sculpture)

Goldsmith say to king that the marriage in the big merchant house is coming , so the merchant said to me that ‘you have to make jewellery ‘ so that I am busy and said to the dancing girl to come again and again .

Caged behind thick glass, the most famous dancer in the world can easily be missed in the National Museum, Delhi. The Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro is that rare artefact that even school children are familiar with. One discovers that the dancing girl has no feet.

She speaks of the undaunted, ever hopeful human spirit. She reminds us that it is important to visit museums in our country to experience the impact that a work of art leaves on our senses, to find among all the riches one particular vision of beauty that speaks to us alone. (i) Mohenjo-Daro.

The passage here refers to Mohenjo Daro’s unique piece, caged behind a thick window. It can easily be overlooked as it is kept in the form of bronze among the terracotta animals. Dancing girl is a little more than 10 cm in height, the size of the human palm.

The Dancing Girl A Mohenjo Daro ia that rare artefact that even school children are familiar with. (ii) She is a rare artefact. (iii) School books communicate the wealth of our heritage. (iv) She cannot be rediscovered as she’s bronze.

Archaeologists regard the Dancing Girl as: “the most captivating piece of art from an Indus site.” The statue led to two important discoveries about “The Indus Valley Civilization,” also known as the “Harappan Civilization.”

Our school textbooks also communicate the wealth of our 5000-year heritage of art. A necklace with three pendants bunched together and a few bangles above the elbow and wrist on the right-hand display almost modern art. She speaks of the undaunted, ever hopeful human spirit.

Dear Student, Here is the answer: The dancing girl said that she was walking up and down the street because she had given some gold to the goldsmith to make some jewellery for her.

Answer: The merchant’s dead father was held responsible for making the wall weak. But according to the king the rich merchant was the real culprit because he had inherited both sins and riches of his father. He escaped the punishment because he was too thin to fit the stake.

The rich owner of the house was finally blamed for the crime. He said that his father had ordered for the jewellery and he should have been responsible. But because his father had died, the king gave judgement that he would die in his father’s place.

the goldsmith

The brick layer was not found guilty as he was distracted by the anklets of the dancing girl. EXPLANATION: In the story named ‘In the Kingdom of fools’, the narrator has explained how foolish people are hard to understand and are dangerous.