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  1. Give the distribution and characteristic features of Upper Paleolithic culture in India (15 marks, 2021)
  2. Critically discuss the origin of Indus Valley Civilization. Mention the evidences of its endogenous origin from the pre-Harappan sites. (20 marks, 2021)
  3. Harappan seals (10 marks, 2021)
  4. Discuss the characteristic features of ‘Neolithic culture’ in India (15 marks , 2020)
  5. Discuss the contribution of V. N. Misra to Archaeological Anthropology in India (15 marks , 2020)
  6. Contribution of Robert Bruce Foote to Indian Archaeology (10 marks , 2020)
  7. Describe the Palaeolithic culture with special reference to Soanian tradition. Indicate the problems of describing the Indian Palaeolithic.(20 marks, 2020)
  8. What kind of society may be reconstructed from the archaeological evidences of Harappan culture ? (20 marks, 2019)
  9. Distribution of Neolithic sites in India.(10 marks , 2020)
  10. Examine the regional variations of Mesolithic cultures of India. 20 marks (2018)
  11. Explain the contribution of tribal cultures to Indian civilization. 20 marks (2018)
  12. Neolithic cultures of south India .  (10 marks , 2017)
  13. Describe the salient features of chalcolithic cultures of the deccan. (15marks ,2017)
  14. Describe various aspects of trade and religion of harappan civilization.(15marks, 2017)
  15. Give the detail appraisal of skeletal remains from chalcolithic culture of undivided Punjab. (20 Marks, 2016)
  16. Short notes on Mesolithic findings from Balen valley.(2016)
  17. South Indian paleoliths (10 Marks 2015)
  18. Prehistoric Rock art of central India. (10Marks 2015)
  19. Discuss the significance of Harappan civilization sites from India. (15Marks 2015)
  20. Neolithic cultures of NE India (10Marks 2014)
  21. Describe what is known of Harappan Religion. Have some of its elements continued into later Hinduism? Discuss. (20Marks 2014)
  22. Discuss salient features of Mesolithic culture in India with special reference to western India.(10Marks – 2013)
  23. Indian Paleolithic culture can neither be conceived chronologically homogenous nor as a uniform cultural phase. Discuss.(15Marks – 2013)
  24. Discuss the significance of study of religious centres to the understanding of Indian civilization. (20Marks – 2013)
  25. Soan culture. (12Marks – 2012) (30Marks – 2011)
  26. Paleolithic Art. (12Marks – 2012)
  27. Compare the salient features and distribution of the Middle Paleolithic and Upper Paleolithic cultures in India. Add a note on the tool traditions of the Upper Paleolithic period. (30Marks – 2012)
  28. Iron age in Gangetic region (15Marks – 2011)
  29. Describe the characteristic feature of Mesolithic cultures in India? (30Marks – 2011)
  30. Neolithic Culture in India (15 Marks – 2010) (S.N – 2007) (L.Q – 1992) *
  31. Proto Neolithic (S.N – 1999)
  32. Urban Planning in Harappan Culture (15 Marks – 2010)
  33. Comment in detail on the socio-cultural life of the people of the Indus Valley Civilization (30 Marks- 2010)
  34. Examine Gorden Childe’s statement ‘Neolithic_Culture is a Revolution (15 Marks -2010) Examine the contribution of Mesolithic culture to the rise of Neolithic culture (10 Marks — 2009)
  35. ‘Langhnaj’ (S.N-2008)
  36. Burzahom (S.N – 2006)
  37. Mesolithic culture is India (S.N – 2005)
  38. Discuss the economic basis of Indus Valley Civilization. What were the factors of its decline? (LQ – 2005) (L.Q – 2000) (S.N – 1994)
  39. Typo-technology of Indian Paleolithic culture (S.N – 2004)
  40. Critically examine the contributions of tribal cultures to the development of Vedic Culture. (L.Q -2003)
  41. Name a few Chalcolithic sites in India and describe their most salient features. (LQ – 2002)
  42. Ecological adaptation during Mesolithic. (S.N – 2001)
  43. Traditional culture as concept (S.N -2001)
  44. Critically examine evidence of Upper Paleolithic in India, Discuss its characteristics. (L.Q –  2001)
  45. Critically examine  various  sources of India’s Culture & Civilization; also  distinguish  between primary and secondary civilizations (L.Q 1999)
  46. Sohanian Tradition (S.N – 1998)
  47. Describe the socio Cultural characteristics of the Neolithic period in India with suitable examples (L.Q – 1998)
  48. Components of culture and its link with civilization (S.N -1997)
  49. Neolithic tool typology and technology of fabrication (S.N – 1996)
  50. Discuss the Cultural characteristics of upper Paleolithic period. Indicate its genesis and development in Indian context pointing to Distribution and chronology (L.Q-1996)
  51. Genesis of Urbanization in India (S.N – 1995)
  52. Point out the salient features of middle Paleolithic industries and their markers. Illustrate your answer with examples from India.(L.Q.1994)
  53. To what extent could the Mesolithic culture be attributed to a phase of transition between Paleolithic and Neolithic cultures? Illustrate the answer with apt examples. (L.Q. 1993)
  54. What are the important features of Indus valley civilization? Examine the conditions that may have led to urbanization in the lndus Region. (L.Q – 1990)
  55. Indus Valley Civilization is regarded as the beginning of urban life in India. Discuss (S.N – 1989)

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