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

From the passage: Until the Keeladi site was discovered, archaeologists by and large bel...

“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:

From the passage: Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly...

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?

From the passage: Until the Keeladi site was discovered, archaeologists by and large bel...

BCE is the acronym for:

From the passage: Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly...

Which of the following, used in the passage, suggests that the illegal supply of groundwater is not a recent phenomenon?

From the passage: Until the Keeladi site was discovered, archaeologists by and large bel...

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?

From the passage: Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly...

Which of the following seems to be the author’s main concern in the passage?

From the passage: Until the Keeladi site was discovered, archaeologists by and large bel...

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

From the passage: Down by the sandy banks of the Yamuna River, the men must work quickly...

All of the following are sounds you can hear as the water tankers are filled, except: