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WBCS Main Examination 2022 — Paper III: General Studies I · Question 75 of 200

Q75
History of IndiaVedic Age
The Central Asian theory of the home of the Aryans was propounded by
  1. a.Friedrich Max Muller
  2. b.Nirad Chaudhary
  3. c.Rakhaldas Banerjee
  4. d.Risley

Answer: (A) Friedrich Max Muller

Max Müller, the German Indologist who edited the Rigveda, held that the Aryans' original home was in Central Asia. Bal Gangadhar Tilak argued instead for an Arctic home in 'The Arctic Home in the Vedas'. Nirad C. Chaudhuri was a writer, author of 'The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian'. Rakhaldas Banerji discovered Mohenjo-daro in 1922, and H. H. Risley classified Indian castes and races in the 1901 Census.

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