The Indus Valley Civilisation, or Harappan Civilisation, as it is also known, is an ancient civilisation that is inextricably involved with the issues of Aryan migration and Dravidian ancestry, both extremely sensitive in their political implications for the very idea of Indianness in the present day.
T.S. SUBRAMANIAN was not prepared for what I was about to see as the group climbed the gradual slope of a mound situated in a barren expanse in Gujarat's Kutch district: suddenly, a wall that rose steeply and stretched into the distance came into view. It was the most spectacular and stunning introduction we could have had to Dholavira, a site belonging to the Harappan Civilisation. It was a fortification wall built of sandstone blocks on the eastern side about 4,600 years ago.
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