ANCIENT INDIA-3 INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION
INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION (ABOUT 2500 TO 1750 BC) Father of indology William Jones who founded Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1784 The Indus valley civilization (IVC) was a unique bronze age/chalcolithic civilization it's area is about 1. 3 million square kilometres It extended from sutkagendor in Pakistan to alamgirpur Uttar Pradesh Mandy in Jammu and Kashmir and Daimabad in Maharashtra it is believed that the civilization had 3 capital/headquarters mohanjodaro ----kalibangan The Civilization flourished around the Indus and Saraswathy river basin India. The Indus Valley Civilization covered parts of Sind, Baluchistan, Afganistan, West Punjab, Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and Maharashtra . Over 1000 Indus Valley Civilization sites have been discovered. Urban and Globalised economy, not a closed economy. Town Planning : Harappan cities were divided into two parts - a fortified settlement on th