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THE “covered-up” image of an artefact has been withdrawn from an Indian school textbook after it sparked a massive backlash from historians and educationists, BBC News reported.
The bronze sculpture — known as the Dancing Girl — shows a girl standing with one hand on her hip and is one of the most recognisable artefacts from the Indus Valley civilisation.
The sculpture was discovered at Mohenjo Daro — one of the largest settlements of the ancient Indus Valley Civilisation in present-day Pakistan.
But in a newly released grade nine textbook, the figurine’s torso was covered with dark shading, hiding its anatomical features.
