10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HARAPPA»
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Harappa in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
Harappa and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Understanding
Harappa: civilization in the greater Indus Valley
This Slim Volume Is An Attempt To Rouse The Interest Of Students And Non-Specialists In The Early Civilization Of The Greater Indus Valley And Adjoining Regions Of Pakistan And India.
2
The Indus Civilization: A Contemporary Perspective
HUMAN SCULPTURE IN THE INDUS CIVILIZATION There is a modest amount
of human sculpture from Indus sites, mainly Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. There
are no examples of life-size works of art from the Indus Civilization as we know it
...
3
The script of
Harappa and Mohenjodaro and its connection ...
Description: The present work is a reissue of the 1934 edition published from London. The Material for this work was provided by some 750 inscribed objects unearthed at the sites in Mohenjodaro and Harappa.
4
Ancient Indian History and Civilization
The principal remains were of two cities — Mohenjo-daro and Harappa —
divided apart by a distance of 400 miles but identical in their layout, architecture
and building technique. The southern, now a deserted mound known as Mohenjo
-daro, ...
5
The Essential World History
The center of power was the city of Harappa, which was surrounded by a brick
wall over 40 feet thick at its base and more than 3 1– 2 miles in circumference.
The city was laid out on an essentially rectangular grid, with some streets as wide
as ...
William J. Duiker, Jackson Spielvogel, 2006
6
Prehistory and Harappan Civilization
Harappa is larger in extent than Mohenojodaro, and had a longer span of life, but
presents nearly the same features. Wells at Harappa are rare as compared to
Mohenjo-daro. Ia The most remarkable and largest building at Harappa is the ...
7
History of Agriculture in India, Up to C. 1200 A.D.
Three distinct phases of the Indus (Harappa) civilization distinguishable on the
basis of material equipment found are the early Harappa or Pre-Harappa culture,
the Harappa (mature phase) culture and late (declining phase) Harappa culture.
8
Inter-regional Interaction and Urbanism in the Ancient Indus ...
The results of this research indicate that, in the process of acquiring the rock and mineral resources, residents of Harappa interacted with peoples dwelling in most every major region in and around the Indus Valley at one time or another.
Randall William Law (II.), 2008
9
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology
4; 1954-5, p. 9). The operations were mainly vertical, and although several
trenches were sunk the lowest cultural levels were reached only in parts of some
of the trenches. The excavations yielded a sequence of six Pds: I (Harappa [4.9],
c.
10
Excavations at Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan: The Pottery
Excavated 1920-34 by M. S. Vats (1940) The first excavations at a recognized
Indus site were conducted at Harappa. Unfortunately, the stated policy of the
excavator was to parrot the more extensive annual excavations at Mohenjo Daro:
...
George F. Dales, Jonathan M. Kenoyer, Leslie Alcock, 1986
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HARAPPA»
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Harappa is used in the context of the following news items.
“Prosperity of Indus valley civilization was contributed by marine …
He also showed a slides featuring Lingas(Shiv Linga) found at Harappa and Kalibangan, earlier battle chariot of the world discovered at ... «DeshGujarat, Jul 15»
SARASWATI: GODDESS OF KNOWLEDGE, MUSIC
As its waters began to fail and the Harappa settlements shifted eastward towards the mighty Indus Valley, Saraswati began to lose her status as ... «The Indian Panorama, Jul 15»
Can you make a river come alive? The long, dry quest to find the …
... that the people who wrote the Vedas (Hindus) were also the urban people who created and lived in the cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
Harappan harbours of big business
Rawat said that about 44 Harappan or Harappa-related sites had been located so far along the Gujarat coast. Thirty of these belonged to the ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
Sri Lanka archaeologists should dig into pre-history; solve South …
... Britain from around 2,500 BC (Wessex culture and related discoveries) which were contemporaries of Mohenja-Daro and Harappa cities. «EconomyNext, Jul 15»
The Art of Yoga
The terracotta object from the Harappa civilization, between 2700 BC and 2100 BC, attracted huge crowd at a recent exhibition on yoga in the ... «The New Indian Express, Jul 15»
'Indira Gandhi's slap story is fabricated, given air in view of the …
Rig Veda or the Vedic society for the large part never mention caste ("What the absence of chariots in ancient Harappa means for Modi's Clean ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
Mishaps devour 12 lives
... friend Sarfraz Ahmed injured when a his bike slipped off the road due to speeding near Chak 186 near Harappa Station on Naiwala-Banglow ... «The Nation, Jul 15»
Rewind with relish
I can get a class of kids to enjoy history just by telling them what people ate for breakfast in Harappa or what they studied in school in Mughal ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
7 Withering Droughts
Other civilizations to decline around that time, possibly as a result of the same drought, include the Harappa of present-day northwest India and ... «History, Jun 15»
