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Harappan Culture
" If you want to read a book that has not been written ,; write one"
My highest compliments to my friennds from over 250 firms , my classfellows , my colleagues and friends in foreing service and my friends from almost all the countries who generated interest in cultural studies supprting 1st decryption in a century.Has anyone flown in desert for 7 days ?
Harappa during 2600-1900 B.C. got evolved attaining the height of economic expansion and urban growth. Let us build the ethno-archeological model of Harappan culture that it got evolved as the Cradle of civilization. We owe special thanks to Binford and Dane Porter from Texas. We have long very long list of scholars to be complemented. Marshal (1931) , Wheeler (1956), Mackay , Megan, Gosh, Woolly , Gosh, Roy (1953), Possehl , Tosi (1993), Walter, Fairservis, Shaffer , Vats(1940), B.B.Lal, Durani(1981), Jacobson, Jerome(1986), Kenoyer (1985), Khan F.A.(1965), Ratnagar(1991) and many others who contributed to Indus Valley research. Iravatham Mahadevan seems to be greater scholar when he says that he could not decipher the scripts inspite of his over 40 years research work. Ahmad Hasan Dani, B.B. Lal and Russian professors are the greatest who disagreed to excellent research work by Asko Parpola.
The Aryan's are supposed to have brought the Vedic culture and their literature originated in Ganga Valley after the decline of the Indus Valley civilizations at Harappa, Cholistan and Rajistan areas . The Vedas have been now being dated as being written during 1300-1000 B.C. Aryan had different sort of agricultural based nomadic culture and different religion, craft making, significant changes in art and social structure were evolved in Aryan culture valley. Major events in Indus Valley like attack by Alexander were not even mentioned in Sanskrit. Mythology in Indus Valley was based on global culture of Sun god but not the divine King was quite different from mythology evolved by Aryans.
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