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Slice the social termsRead the answer and worked solution →Kinship or varnaRead the answer and worked solution →Sort texts, people and termsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Kinship and caste bingoRead the answer and worked solution →The prehistoric period of early human development is commonly known as the:Read the answer and worked solution →The first discovery of rock paintings in India, in 1867-68, was made by:Read the answer and worked solution →Carlleyle's Indian discovery came twelve years before the famous cave paintings of Altamira in:Read the answer and worked solution →Lakhudiyar, a rock shelter site with prehistoric paintings, lies in the:Read the answer and worked solution →At Lakhudiyar the paintings fall into three categories: man, animal and:Read the answer and worked solution →At Lakhudiyar the earliest paintings are in which colour?Read the answer and worked solution →Kupgallu, Piklihal and Tekkalkota are Neolithic painting sites on the granite rocks of:Read the answer and worked solution →The richest prehistoric paintings in India come from which ranges of Madhya Pradesh?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhimbetka lies about how far south of Bhopal?Read the answer and worked solution →Bhimbetka has about how many rock shelters, of which five hundred bear paintings?Read the answer and worked solution →The caves of Bhimbetka were discovered in 1957-58 by:Read the answer and worked solution →The rock art of Bhimbetka is classified into how many historical periods?Read the answer and worked solution →Period III of the Bhimbetka rock art is:Read the answer and worked solution →Upper Palaeolithic paintings at Bhimbetka are linear figures of huge animals in:Read the answer and worked solution →At Bhimbetka the green paintings depict dancers while the red ones depict:Read the answer and worked solution →The largest number of Bhimbetka paintings belong to which period?Read the answer and worked solution →Mesolithic hunting scenes at Bhimbetka show people armed with barbed spears, pointed sticks and:Read the answer and worked solution →At Bhimbetka animals were painted naturalistically while humans were shown in a:Read the answer and worked solution →The favourite colours of the Bhimbetka artists were:Read the answer and worked solution →Prehistoric artists got red colour from haematite, known in India as:Read the answer and worked solution →The green colour in Bhimbetka paintings came from a green variety of:Read the answer and worked solution →At Bhimbetka, in some places paintings are layered one on top of another up to:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the rock art sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the paint sourcesRead the answer and worked solution →Run the discoveriesRead the answer and worked solution →

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Slice the social terms

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Does not match the category
  1. Isobar
  2. Ledger
  3. Piston
  4. Nebula
Matches the category
  1. Kula
  2. Gotra
  3. Exogamy
  4. Jati
  5. Shreni
Instructions
Slice only the early Indian social terms. Spare the others.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class._

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Kinship or varna

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Upper category
Kinship
Lower category
Varna
Items
  1. Category
    Kinship
    Item
    Kula
  2. Category
    Kinship
    Item
    Gotra
  3. Category
    Kinship
    Item
    Exogamy
  4. Category
    Kinship
    Item
    Patriliny
  5. Category
    Varna
    Item
    Brahmana
  6. Category
    Varna
    Item
    Kshatriya
  7. Category
    Varna
    Item
    Shudra
  8. Category
    Varna
    Item
    Purusha
Instructions
Send each clue to the kinship track or the varna track.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class._

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Sort texts, people and terms

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Items
  1. Group
    Text
    Item
    Manusmriti
  2. Group
    Text
    Item
    Mahabharata
  3. Group
    Text
    Item
    Adi Parvan
  4. Group
    Person
    Item
    Sukthankar
  5. Group
    Person
    Item
    Ekalavya
  6. Group
    Person
    Item
    Drona
  7. Group
    Term
    Item
    Gotra
  8. Group
    Term
    Item
    Jati
  9. Group
    Term
    Item
    Varna
Groups
  1. Item
    Text
  2. Item
    Person
  3. Item
    Term
Instructions
Drop each clue onto text, person or social term.
_Source: syllabus Themes in Indian History I, Theme 3, Kinship, Caste and Class._

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