Previous Year Question

Alamgirpur is regarded as one of the easternmost known sites of the Harappan culture. It is situated in the present-day Meerut region of Uttar Pradesh, on the Hindon River, a tributary of the Yamuna. Its discovery and excavation demonstrated for the first time that the Harappan cultural expansion had reached far east of the Indus region into the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.

The site has yielded red pottery, painted pottery, perforated vessels, bowls-on-stand, terracotta triangular cakes, beads and copper/bronze objects associated with the Harappan tradition. However, its cultural assemblage was not as developed as that of mature urban centres such as Mohenjodaro and Harappa, and it is generally associated with a later or Late Harappan phase.

An Archaeological Survey-related study explicitly describes Alamgirpur as the “easternmost known centre of the true Harappa culture.” Archaeological research records its discovery in 1958, while excavation in 1959 provided clearer evidence of the entry of Harappan culture into the Ganga-Yamuna Doab.

Among the other options, Manda represents the northern extension of Harappan culture in the Jammu region; Harappa was one of its principal core centres in the Punjab region; while Rakhigarhi is a major Harappan urban site in Haryana. None of them marks the eastern extent of the culture as far east as Alamgirpur.