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Dancing Girl’s bare torso restored in Indian textbook after backlash

Dawn 17 June 2026 4h ago
Dancing Girl’s bare torso restored in Indian textbook after backlash
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THE “covered-up” image of an artefact has been withdrawn from an Indian school textbook after it sparked a massive backlash from historians and educationists, BBC News reported.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 Da
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