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OPSC OCS 2025 · Question 78 of 84

Match List-I with List-II with respect to language of Indus Valley civilisation and select the answer using the codes given below the lists. (2025) List-I --- List-II i. Mahadevan --- (a) Language was Dravidian and Script relied upon homophones __________________________________________________________ ii. SR Rao --- (b) Language is closer to Dravidian than to any other language iii. Kinnier-Wilson --- (c) Accept the Dravidian hypothesis and published an impressive computer concordance iv. Parpola --- (d) Attempt to read the contents of the inscriptions in terms of analogies between Harappan and Sumerian signs v. Soviet Scholars --- (e) Attempt to read the script as containing a pre-Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-European family Codes:

History

  1. Ai-a, ii-c, iii-e, iv-d, v-b
  2. Bi-d, ii-a, iii-b, iv-c, v-e
  3. Ci-c, ii-e, iii-d, iv-a, v-bCorrect
  4. Di-b, ii-d, iii-a, iv-e, v-c

Answer: C. i-c, ii-e, iii-d, iv-a, v-b

Explanation

* Scholar i is Correctly Matched with (c): Iravatham Mahadevan accepted the Dravidian framework hypothesis and famously compiled and published a highly rigorous, groundbreaking computercoded concordance of the Indus inscriptions in 1977 under the Archaeological Survey of India.…

Source: OPSC OCS Prelims 2025 GS Paper-I (Set D); answers per Apti Plus unofficial key

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