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The earliest evidence of agriculture in the Indian subcontinent comes from —

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AKoldihwa (Allahabad)
BBurzahom (Kashmir)
CMehrgarh (Balochistan)
DBagor (Rajasthan)
Correct Answer: Mehrgarh (Balochistan)Your Answer: C

Explanation

Mehrgarh in Balochistan provides the earliest well-known evidence of farming and herding in the Indian subcontinent, beginning in the seventh millennium BCE. Koldihwa and Lahuradewa are important for early rice, Burzahom for pit dwellings and Bagor for Mesolithic pastoral evidence. Therefore the other options either belong to another chronological phase, a different site, or an older interpretation that does not best fit the evidence.

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