UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 1987 · Q2 · 60 marks
Compare the economic, social and religious life of the Indus Valley (Harappan) people with that of the early Vedic people and discuss the relative chronology of the Indus and the early Vedic cultures.
- Chapter
- Indus Valley Civilization
- Topic
- Continuity and Relation with the Vedic Culture
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