How and when were the ruins of Hampi brought to light? Explain briefly.
The ruins at Hampi were brought to light in 1800 by an engineer and antiquarian named Colonel Colin Mackenzie.
(i) An employee of the English East India Company, he prepared the first survey map of the site.
(ii) Much of the initial information he received was based on the memories of priests of the Virupaksha temple and the shrine of Pampadevi.
(iii) Subsequently, from 1856, photographers began to record the monuments which enabled scholars to study them.
(iv) As early as 1836 epigraphists began collecting several dozen inscriptions found at this and other temples at Hampi.
(v) In an effort to reconstruct the history of the city and the empire, historians collated information from these sources with accounts of foreign travellers and other literature written in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil and Sanskrit.
On the given political outline map of India mark and label the following mature Harappan sites Rakhigadi, Nageshwar, Lothal, Kalibangan, Kotdiji.
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On the given political outline map of India mark and label the following territories under Babar, Akbar and Aurangzeb: Delhi, Goa, Agra, Ajmer, Amber.
Who composed the original story of the text of Mahabharata? Describe the various stages through which Mahabharata was completed between the fifth century BCE and 400 C.E.
Mention the two rules about classification of people in terms of 'gotra' under Brahmanical practice around 1000 BCE onwards.
Describe three factors that accounted for the constant expansion of agriculture during sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
'The keeping of exact and detailed records was a major concern of the Mughal administration'. Support the statement with facts.
