Indus Civilization Sites in India: New Discoveries

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More than 5,000 years ago, India’s first civilization flourished with well-planned cities, civic amenities, and a developed economy. Since the first discovery of this civilization in 1920-21 at Harappa in the Indus valley, hundreds of sites spread over more than a million square kilometers in the Indian subcontinent have been excavated, many of these in northern and western India. Sites are still being discovered constantly adding to our knowledge of this completely urban civilization which continued up to circa 1400 BCE. This book focuses on some of the recently discovered sites inIndia, and utilizes the finds from locations in the Gangetic Doab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Gujarat for the dating of the civilizatioin, its llife, town-planning social and economic infrastructure, religious practices, script, trading activities, crafts, griculture, and pastoral life. Some of the interesting discoveries included in the volume are remains of earliest ploughed field in the subcontinent, a hoard of Late Harappan jewellery, and different kinds of pottery. The volume is important for the study of later Indian civilizations, and many of the elements of our civilization today are rooted in the life and times of the Indus civilization sites.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dilip K Chakrabarti

Dilip K. Chakrabarty is University lecturer in south Asian archaeology at Cambridge University. His recent publications include Archaeological Geography of the Ganga Plain: the Lower and the Middle Ganga (Delhi 2001) and The Archaeology of European Expansion in India: Gujarat, c. 16th-18th Centuries (in Press). His current field-research programmes include a historical geographical study of the upper Ganga plain and a similar study of the routes which linked the Ganga plain with the Deccan.

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Title
Indus Civilization Sites in India: New Discoveries
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8185026637
Length
108p., Figures; Col. & B/w Plates; Maps; Index; 32cm.
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