Place Lothal
Asked 5 times across 3 UPSC exams, peaking in 2025.
Key insights
- Most tested in CSE — 3 of 5 PYQs
- Most asked in 2025
- Recurs across 1 years (2025–2025)
How it travelled across exams
First appearance in each exam — the same idea, reframed.
CAPF 2025 → GEO 2025
How the concept evolved
Long-running — most appearances (3 of 5) predate 2016, and it still returns.
Related concepts
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Sample questions
You've seen the pattern — here are a few of the actual PYQs.
CAPF2025
Which one of the following Harappan sites has yielded evidence of a wash basin in the toilet of a house?
- A Banawali
- B Rakhigarhi
- C Dholavira
- D Lothal
Answer key not yet available (pending official release)
History › Ancient India
GEO2025
The National Maritime Heritage Complex (NMHC) is proposed to be developed at which one of the following places?
- A Lothal ✓
- B Porbandar
- C Kandla
- D Okha
✓ Correct answer: (A)
Current Affairs & Static GK › Government Initiatives in News
CSE
Lothal is
- A A closed water system
- B A poisonous gas
- C A place in Gujarat where excavations have established a link with the Indus Valley civilisation ✓
- D Legal action taken against defectors.
✓ Correct answer: (C)
History › Ancient India
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