What according to the author is essential about the experience of being a ‘provincial reader’?

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What was the assumption about the origin of urban life in India before the Keeladi dig?

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Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage?

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“The Keeladi excavations further challenge the idea of a single fountainhead of Indian life.” — in elaboration of this sentence, which of these options follows?

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Language, including a script similar to the Brahmi script, emerged in Keeladi in the sixth century BCE. Which of the following is the most convincing conclusion from this statement?

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BCE is the acronym for:

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“A farmer could write his own name on a pot he owned. The fight going on here is ‘You are not the one to teach me to write, I have learnt it myself.’ ” — these sentences imply:

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All the following statements are ‘truisms’, except:

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Which of the following comes closest to the underlined sentence in the passage?