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Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? for CLAT 2024 is part of CLAT preparation. The Question and answers have been prepared according to the CLAT exam syllabus. Information about Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? covers all topics & solutions for CLAT 2024 Exam. Find important definitions, questions, meanings, examples, exercises and tests below for Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?.

Solutions for Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? in English & in Hindi are available as part of our courses for CLAT. Download more important topics, notes, lectures and mock test series for CLAT Exam by signing up for free.

Here you can find the meaning of Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? defined & explained in the simplest way possible. Besides giving the explanation of Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer?, a detailed solution for Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? has been provided alongside types of Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? theory, EduRev gives you an ample number of questions to practice Directions: Read the following passage and answer the question.There has been a tendency for long to tag the word "mythical" with the Saraswati river. The constant tagging has its purpose. Whenever a reader now reads the word Saraswati, his/her mind automatically adds the word mythical, even if the word is actually missing in print. This brings us to the question: Was Saraswati really a mythical river that existed only in the imagination of the writers and sages who composed the Vedas? Saraswati is among the most discussed rivers in the context of Indian history, the waters of which once flowed from the Himalayas to the Arabian Sea, separate from the other historically famous Indus river. Besides the river being mentioned repeatedly in the Vedas, Puranas, and the epics, in the first half of the 19th century, James Tod, an officer with the British East India company while documenting his extensive travels and explorations of Rajasthan, called it the "lost river of the desert", and detailing its route said the river originated somewhere in the Siwalik Himalayas. It was a few years later in 1855 that French geographer Louis Vivien de Saint-Martin first pointed out specifically that Ghaggar river was the remnant of the Rig Vedic Saraswati river. He made his derivations after studying various reports on the wide dry river bed lying between the Sutlej and the Yamuna rivers which were made by British topographers. That area was also exactly the location where Rig Veda mentioned the Saraswati river to be.Later, in 1874 (Oldham, CF), after more extensive studies, concluded that the course of the 'lost river of the desert' or Saraswati was indeed the present route of the Ghaggar-Hakra river that lies between Akalgarh-Tohana (Punjab in India), and Khangarh in Pakistan. Oldham made his conclusions based on extensive studies of the now mostly dry river beds and surrounding landscapes, from both on ground explorations and reading survey maps.Archaeologists, such as Cunningham, M. A. Stein, Mortimer Wheeler, A. Ghosh, etc. have all agreed with the Ghaggar river being the Saraswati river. Post-Independence excavations in the 1950s headed by Amalananda Ghosh in Saraswati (Ghaggar) and Drishadvati (Chautang) led to the discovery of hundreds of Harappan era sites in the Ghaggar river basin. In 1974, on the Pakistani side, archaeologist Mohammad Rafique Mughal found 171 sites of the mature Harappan phase in the Cholistan desert, thus documenting the fact that Sarasvati basin (Ghaggar–Hakra) totalled more than 360 sites of the mature phase, which then accounted for nearly one-third (32 percent) of the 1,200 known such sites in the entire Harappan region. In Gujarat, S. R. Rao discovered a few more sites including the famous Lothal port town. When all the numbers are added, it gives a whopping figure of 2,378 Harappan sites. Looking at the figures, it is evident why the change of name from the Indus Valley civilisation to the Saraswati Indus/Sindhu civilisation for India's ancient most culture is an appropriate one.Q. Which of the following is the conclusion of the passage?a)The contribution of foreign historians to Indian topography is greater than that of Indian historians.b)The extent of the Saraswati river is much more than what is generally believed.c)Availability of factual evidence for Saraswati's presence is enough to discredit the associated 'mythical' tag.d)Rivers and the areas drained by the Saraswati river were the bedrock of ancient civilisations.Correct answer is option 'C'. Can you explain this answer? tests, examples and also practice CLAT tests.