{"id":28405,"date":"2020-09-16T05:54:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T05:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=28405"},"modified":"2020-09-16T05:54:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T05:54:55","slug":"16-member-committee-to-study-ancient-indian-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/16-member-committee-to-study-ancient-indian-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"16-member committee to study ancient Indian culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The government of India has formed an expert committee for conducting a study on the origin and evolution of Indian culture dating back to around 12,000 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The committee is chaired by K.N. Dikshit (Chairman of Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi and former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey of India).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Archaeological Survey of India was established in 1861 by Alexander Cunningham to conduct archaeological research and conservation as well as the preservation of the cultural monuments in India. It is a government agency under the Ministry of Culture. It is headquartered in New Delhi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the time phase before 12,000 years which is known as the Mesolithic era, modern humans or Homo sapiens settled in the Indian subcontinent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By that time the last ice age had just ceased. The climate was warm and dry. The first settlements of human beings in India are found in Bhimbetka (Present Madhya Pradesh).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The occupation of the people at that time was hunting, fishing, and food gathering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The government of India has formed an expert committee for conducting a study on the origin and evolution of Indian culture dating back to around 12,000 years ago. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points The committee is chaired by K.N. Dikshit (Chairman of Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi and former Joint Director General, Archaeological Survey […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":28406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1273],"tags":[71],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-28405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-september-2020","tag-art-culture-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28407,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions\/28407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=28405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}