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UPSC 2024: Consider the following information: Archaeological Site — State — Description 1. Chandraketugarh — Odisha — Trading Port town 2. Inamgaon — Maharashtra — Chalcolithic site 3. Mangadu — Kerala — Megalithic site 4. Salihundam — Andhra Pradesh — Rock-cut cave shrines In which of the above rows is the given information correctly matched?
(a)1 and 2
(b)2 and 3
(c)3 and 4
(d)1 and 4
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Not attemptedCorrect Answer: (b) 2 and 3
Inamgaon is a well-studied Chalcolithic (Copper–Stone-Age) village-site in Maharashtra, so pair 2 is correct ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inamgaon?utm_source=openai)). Mundu (in Kerala) is recorded in the state archaeology list as a megalithic burial-site, so pair 3 is also correct, whereas Chandraketugarh lies in West Bengal (not Odisha) though it was an early historic port, and Salihundam in Andhra Pradesh is a Buddhist stupa complex, not a rock-painting cave-temple ([en.wikipedia.org](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandraketugarh?utm_source=openai)). Hence only pairs 2 and 3 are rightly matched.
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