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Villages and towns bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms
  1. Clue
    Large Tamil landowner.
    Item
    Vellalar
  2. Clue
    Hereditary north Indian headman.
    Item
    Grama bhojaka
  3. Clue
    Independent smaller farmer.
    Item
    Grihapati
  4. Clue
    Assembly of Tamil poets.
    Item
    Sangam
  5. Clue
    Story kept by Buddhist monks.
    Item
    Jataka
  6. Clue
    Stacked ceramic rings as drain or toilet.
    Item
    Ring well
  7. Clue
    Shiny black northern pottery.
    Item
    NBPW
  8. Clue
    Guild that also banked money.
    Item
    Shreni
  9. Clue
    Puducherry port with Roman finds.
    Item
    Arikamedu
Instructions
Read each clue and tap the term it describes.

Explanation

_Source: syllabus Our Pasts I, Chapter 8, Vital Villages, Thriving Towns._
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