'Dancing girl's' bare torso restored in Indian textbook after backlash
Her posture captures the human body in motion and archaeologists have long considered the sculpture to be of great artistic value and evidence of the civilisation's advanced knowledge of metallurgy.The sculpture is currently housed in the National Museum in Delhi.HistoryArchaeologyIndiaAsia
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'Dancing girl's' bare torso restored in Indian textbook after backlash1 hour agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleCherylann MollanNCERTThe Dancing Girl is a bronze figurine discovered in Mohenjo-daro dating back to 2600 BCEThe "covered-up" image of a nude artefact has been withdrawn from an Indian school textbook after it sparked a massive backlash from historians and educationists.The bronze sculpture - known as the Dancing girl from Mohenjo-daro - shows a girl standing with one hand on her hip and is one of the most recognisable artefacts from the Indus Valley civilisation.But in a newly released grade nine textbook, the figurine's torso was covered with dark shading, hiding its anatomical features.After it created an uproar, officials said that the original image has been restored in…
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