INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION (2500-1750BC)

🔴HARAPPA(Left Bank of Ravi,Montegomery)

✔2 rows of 6 granaries.

✔Single room Barrack

✔Bull-seal

✔Statue of Nataraj Shiva

✔Bullock Carts(এক্কা গাড়ি) 

✔Coffin Burial

✔Cemetery H & R 37

🔴 MOHENJODARO

(Right bank of Indus,Larkana)☛

✔Great Bath (Largest Brick Work)

✔Great Granary (Largest Building)

✔Bronze image of dancing girl

✔Image of steatite bearded man

✔Piece of woven cotton

✔Seal of pashupati

✔Prepared Garments

 ✔Skeletons on stairs of well (Mound of the dead)

✔Priest King

✔Assembly Hall

✔Cylindrical seals from Mesopotamia

🔴LOTHAL

(Sabarmati,Gujarat)☛

✔Artificial Dock (Manchester of Harappan civilization)

✔Art of double burial of man and woman(সতী প্রথার নিদর্শন)

✔Cotton cultivation

✔Rice Cultivation(also in Rangpur)

✔Atta Chaki

✔Sheep Seal

✔Copper Dog

✔Modern day Compass

✔Trapezium citadel

🔴CHANHUDARO(Bank of Indus)☛

✔Lancashire of India/Sheffield of India.

✔Only city without citadel

✔Bangles Factory

✔Beads Factory

✔Ink pot

🔴KALIBANGAN

(Rajasthan)☛

✔Granary & Wooden furrow

✔Fire alters

✔Wells in every house

✔Camels Bone

✔Pot burial

🔴Dholavira(Gujarat)☛

✔Divided into 3 parts(বাকী শহর বা প্রত্নকেন্দ্রগুলো দুটো ভাগে বিভক্ত ছিল)

✔Stadium.

✔Step well.

✔Guard room at entrance.

✔Gold Bangles and Gold ear stud.

🔴Ropar☛Double burial of Man and Dog.

🔴Amri☛ Rhinoceros.

🔴Surkotoda☛Bone of Horse.

🔴Rangpur☛Rice Husks.

🔴Banwali☛No drainage system,Palace like structures.

🚩SOME IMPORTANT FEATURES☛

🔷First mentioned by☛Charles Mason.

🔷Excavation begun by☛A. Cunningham.

🔷First Discovered Site☛Harappa

(1921,D.Sahani)

🔷The Civilization was named as Indus Valley Civilization by Sir John Marshal (1924).

🔷The maximum number of sites were explored by S.R. Rao, in Gujarat (190 sites).

🔷First Discovered Site after Independence☛Ropar.

🔷Chalcolithic period civilization.

🔷Script☛Pictograph,

Boustrophedon.

🔷Their weights and measures resemble those of Babylon.

🔷Their drainage system resembles that at Tell Asmar.

🔷LARGEST SITE☛Rakhigarhi

🔷LARGEST 'CITY'☛Mohenjodaro.

🔷SMALLEST SITE☛Allahdino.

🔷Mohenjodaro: UNESCO World Heritage Site☛1980.

🔷Destroyed by Fire☛Kotdiji.

🔷IVC was called "MELUHA" by the mesopotemians.

🔷Main Crop☛Wheat.