A Brief Description of Harappan Sites

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Brief Description of Harappa Civilization-

• The Harappa civilization is considered to be the starting point of a long and varied story of Indian culture.
  
• The Harappa civilization originated in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent against the Chalcolithic background. 
  
• This mature Harappan culture centre site falls mainly in the Indus Valley in Punjab and the Indus. From this, this civilization expanded to the south and east.
  
• From the partition of India, till 1947, only 40 sites of this civilization were known. 
  
• After continuous search work since the independence of India, till now about 1400 sites of this civilization have been discovered.
  
• Of these, 925 sites have been discovered in India and 425 in Pakistan. 
  
• Of these sites, only 40 sites have been discovered in the Indus river region, while about 1100 sites are located in the plains between the Indus and the Ganges.
  
• This is the area of ​​the Saraswati river, which is now extinct.
  
• The expansion of the Indus civilization is presently in three countries India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. 
  
• The description of their main places is as follows –

Site	Excavation Year	Excavator	Site Location
Harappa	1921	Daya Ram Sahni	Montgomery District,  Punjab Province, Pakistan
Mohenjodaro	1922	Rakhaldas Banerjee	Larkana District,  Sindh Province, Pakistan
Sutkagendor	1927	R L Stine	Baluchistan, Pakistan
Chanhudaro	1931	M G Majumdar	Sindh Province, Pakistan
Rangpur	1953	Madhoswaroop Vats	Ahmedabad  Gujarat
Kotdiji	1935	G.S ghurye	Sindh Province, Pakistan
Ropar	1953	Y D Sharma	Punjab
Kalibangan	1953	Amalananda Ghosh	Ganganagar, Rajasthan
Lothal	1955	S R Rao	Ahmedabad,  Gujarat
Alamgirpur	1958	Y D Sharma	Meerut, Uttar Pradesh
Surkotada	1972	Jagat Pati Joshi	Kutch, Gujarat
Banawali	1973	R S Vista	Hisar, Haryana
Dholavira	1990-91	R S Vista	Kutch, Gujarat
Rakhigarhi	1990-91	Rafique Mughal	Haryana
Daimabad	1958	B. P. Bopardikar	Maharashtra
Desalpur	1963-64	A.S.I	Kutch, Gujarat
Manda	1976-77	J. P. Joshi	Jammu
Kunnal	1998-99	A.S.I	Haryana
Sanghol	1968, 1987	S.S. Talwar,  R.S. Bisht,  G.B. Sharma,	Punjab