Q. Match the columns:
(A) Sir John Marshall
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1. Glory of Indian Art
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(B) H. T. Prinsep
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2. History of Indian Culture
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(C) A. K. Coomara Swamy
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3. Writer during the time of Lord Hastings
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A B C
Answer:
2 3 1
Notes: • Sir John Hubert Marshall was English director general of the Indian Archaeological Survey who in the 1920s was responsible for the large-scale excavations that revealed Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.
• At the end of the Third Anglo-Maratha War, Prinsep obtained the permission of the governor-general to write A History of the Political and Military Transactions in India during the Administration of the Marquis of Hastings.
• Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy was one of the great art historians of the twentieth century whose multifaceted writings deal primarily with visual art, aesthetics, literature and language, folklore, mythology, religion, and metaphysics.