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    This document provides details about several important Indus Valley Civilization sites that have been discovered, including Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Lothal, and Dholavira. It notes that town planning was not uniform but did generally involve a grid street system divided into rectangular blocks. Agriculture was a key part of the civilization's economy and crops grown included wheat, barley, cotton, dates, and peas.

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    This document provides details about several important Indus Valley Civilization sites that have been discovered, including Harappa, Mohenjodaro, Lothal, and Dholavira. It notes that town planning was not uniform but did generally involve a grid street system divided into rectangular blocks. Agriculture was a key part of the civilization's economy and crops grown included wheat, barley, cotton, dates, and peas.

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    City.

    Province River Bank Year of Archaeologist


    Discovery
    Harappa ;;v / Pakistani Punjab Ravi 1921 DR Sahni
    Mohenjodaro Sind Indus 122 RD Bannerjee
    Chanhudaro; Sind Indus 1931 , MG Majumdar
    Sutkagendor Balochistan Dasht 1931 Aurel Stein
    Gujarat Meedar 1931 MS Vats
    Rangpur Indus Valley Civilisation is TOWN-PLANNING
    Ropar one of the four earliest Town-planning was not
    /Indian Punjab Sutlej 1953 YD Sharma
    Lothal civilisations of the world uniform. A common
    Gujarat ~ Bhogava 1957 SR Rao
    Kanbangan alongwith
    Rajasthan Ghaggar 1961 the feature was the grid
    BB Lai
    civilisations
    Kachchh (Gujarat) Luni 1967 of
    JPsystem
    Joshi i.e. streets cutting
    Dholavira
    Mesopotamia (Tigris and across
    Haryana Ghaggar 1973 RS Bisht one another at
    Banawali Euphrates), Egypt (Nile) right angles, dividing
    Atamgirpur and China (Hwang Ho).
    Uttar Pradesh Hindon 1974 YD Sharma
    the town into large
    r Tlie Civilisation forms a rectangular blocks.
    part of the proto-history The towns were divided
    of India and belongs to into; two parts: the
    the Bronze age. Upper part or Citadel
    The most accepted
    period (s 2500-1700) BC "Sand I
    the
    .ower pari.
    (derived by Garbon-14 Underground drainage
    dating), system connected all
    - Dayoram Salmi first houses to the street
    discovered Harappa; in drains, made up of
    1021, RE) Bannerjee mortar, lime and
    discovered Mohenjodaro gypsum; They were
    or Mound of the Dead' covered with either
    in 1922. brick or stone slabs
    It can be divided into the following sub-parts
    and equipped with
    manholes. This shows
    Early Phase - 2900-2500 BC a developed s; use of
    ^ Middle (mature) Phase - 2500-2000 BC health and sanitation.
    Later Phase 2000-1750 BC The Great Bath
    (Mohenjodaro) It was
    NOMENCLATURE used for religious
    > Indus Valley bathing. Steps at
    Civilisation, as it either end lead to the

    Indus Cities At a Glance


    ENERAL KNOWLEDGE ~ Indian History

    AGRICULTURE Terracotta Figurines Fire


    baked clay was used to
    Agriculture was the make toys, objects of
    backbone of the worship, animals
    civilisation. The soil (monkey, dogs, sheep,
    was fertile due to cattle, humped and
    inundation in the river bumpless bulls), .cattle
    Indus. toys with movable Head,
    tThey
    iops used wooden
    .produced .were toy-carts,
    : to be their whistles
    favourite shaped
    wheat, barley, time-pass.
    dates, peas, sesamum,
    mustard, millet, TRADE
    ragi, bajra arid jowar. At Agriculture, industry
    Lothal arid and forest provided
    llangpur. rice husks the basis for internal
    were found. V and-external trade.
    * They were first, to Trade was. based on
    produce cotton in the barter system. Coins
    world, which Greeks are riot ;evident.
    called-as. Sin don Bullock carts and boats
    braved from Sind. A were used for
    fragment of woven transportation.
    cotton cloth- was found
    at Mohenjodaro. | Towns and Trade
    - Well-irrigation is evident i Daimabad Bxnzo industry. - 'w
    from the darns
    and irrigation canals !j Lothal Factory for stone tools arid "''
    metallic finished.goqds.,-
    foundat.ffihplrivira.
    Sugarcane-was not | Balakot Pearl finished goods, ' T
    known
    cu to the Indus
    Camel bones are reported :
    at Kalibarigkn ;"
    . ,, bangie and shell industry-
    l>ic:al shape and in multiples of 1G.
    and remains : of horse are discbVefed: A
    Foreign trade flourished with
    Afrom
    R1 ANDSurkotada.
    CRAE IS Mesopotamia
    Major Imports or

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