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NCERT to restore original ‘Dancing Girl’ of Mohenjo-daro in class IX textbooks
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The image appears in the opening chapter, “History of Arts”, of Madhurima, NCERT’s new class IX arts education textbook. In the version carried in the textbook, the torso of the figurine appears visually altered compared to photographs of the original artefact, with shading used across the upper bod
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