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Harappan art contributes to our understanding of their aesthetic sensibilities in addition to spiritual and ritualistic life. Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Indus Valley Civilization

Harappan art has traditionally been read by scholars chiefly as a window onto belief — the horned deity on the "Pashupati" seal, the terracotta mother-goddess, the fire altars of Kalibangan — with any aesthetic quality in these objects treated as incidental to their religious purpose. This undersells the material. The same body of evidence —…

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  • Art as a Window into Spiritual and Ritual Life
  • Art as Evidence of an Independent Aesthetic Sensibility
  • Where the Two Meet: Sacred and Secular in a Single Object

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