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Run the movement yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the movement bodiesRead the answer and worked solution →Which movementRead the answer and worked solution →Movement to StateRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Movements bingoRead the answer and worked solution →A museum label says a Harappan seal is carved from a soft stone. Which stone is it?Read the answer and worked solution →The Mature Harappan civilisation is dated to which period?Read the answer and worked solution →Grains found at Harappan sites include wheat, barley, lentil and chickpea. Which grain is relatively rare?Read the answer and worked solution →Terracotta models of a plough have been found at Cholistan and at which Haryana site?Read the answer and worked solution →At which Rajasthan site was a ploughed field with two sets of furrows at right angles found?Read the answer and worked solution →Traces of canals have been found at which Harappan site in Afghanistan?Read the answer and worked solution →Water reservoirs that may have stored water for farming were found at which Gujarat site?Read the answer and worked solution →Who was the first Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India, called the father of Indian archaeology?Read the answer and worked solution →Mohenjodaro is divided into a small high western part and a larger lower eastern part. What are these called?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappan bricks followed a standard ratio. Length and breadth were how many times the height?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many wells did Mohenjodaro have, by scholars' estimate?Read the answer and worked solution →The Great Bath tank was made watertight with bricks set on edge and a mortar of what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which tiny settlement of under 7 hectares was devoted almost wholly to craft production like bead-making?Read the answer and worked solution →Nageshwar and Balakot, both near the coast, specialised in making objects from which material?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappans may have sent expeditions to the Khetri region of Rajasthan for which metal?Read the answer and worked solution →Mesopotamian texts call the Harappan region by which name?Read the answer and worked solution →The Harappan script has how many signs, showing it was not alphabetical?Read the answer and worked solution →Harappan weights were usually cubical and made of which stone?Read the answer and worked solution →By about which year BCE had most Mature Harappan sites in Cholistan been abandoned?Read the answer and worked solution →Who announced the discovery of the Indus valley civilisation to the world in 1924?Read the answer and worked solution →Which ASI Director-General, from 1944, insisted on following the stratigraphy of a mound?Read the answer and worked solution →Fire altars regarded as ritual structures have been found at Lothal and which other site?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the Harappan sitesRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the Harappan grainsRead the answer and worked solution →

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Run the movement years

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Questions
  1. Correct
    1972
    Choices
    1. 1972
    2. 1973
    3. 1988
  2. Correct
    1973
    Choices
    1. 1972
    2. 1973
    3. 1988
  3. Correct
    1988
    Choices
    1. 1972
    2. 1973
    3. 1988
  4. Correct
    1990
    Choices
    1. 1990
    2. 1992
    3. 2005
  5. Correct
    2005
    Choices
    1. 1990
    2. 1992
    3. 2005
  6. Correct
    2003
    Choices
    1. 1989
    2. 2003
    3. 1991
Instructions
Pick the lane with the right year for each movement.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 7, Rise of Popular Movements._

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Slice the movement bodies

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Does not match the category
  1. ISRO
  2. SEBI
  3. NABARD
  4. WHO
Matches the category
  1. BKU
  2. NFF
  3. MKSS
  4. NBA
  5. BAMCEF
Instructions
Slice only the organisations from these popular movements.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 7, Rise of Popular Movements._

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Which movement

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Upper category
Chipko
Lower category
Narmada
Items
  1. Category
    Chipko
    Item
    Ash trees
  2. Category
    Chipko
    Item
    1973
  3. Category
    Chipko
    Item
    Tree hug
  4. Category
    Chipko
    Item
    15-yr ban
  5. Category
    Narmada
    Item
    Medha
  6. Category
    Narmada
    Item
    Dams
  7. Category
    Narmada
    Item
    245 villag
  8. Category
    Narmada
    Item
    Sardar Sar
Instructions
Send each clue to Chipko or Narmada Bachao.
_Source: syllabus Political Science, Politics in India since Independence, Chapter 7, Rise of Popular Movements._

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