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'Dancing girl's' bare torso restored in Indian textbook after backlash
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- 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 the digital version of the book and that new print editions would also carry the unedited photo of the bronze sculpture.
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Cherylann Mollan NCERTThe 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a bronze figurine discovered in Mohenjo-daro dating back to 2600 BCEThe "covered-up" image of a nude artefact has been withdrawn from an Indian school textbook after it sparked a massive backlash from historians and educationists.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.
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